Diego Sainz Garcia

Currently living in Herefordshire, England, Diego Sainz Garcia was born in Logroño in northern Spain. He has been drawing since childhood, and his passion for art began with small comics and cartoons, creating stories and imagined battles on paper. After moving to a new city to pursue veterinary studies, he continued to develop his artistic practice. Alongside his academic training, he enrolled in an advanced program in stamping techniques, began painting more intensively, shared studio spaces, and received several painting awards. His first solo exhibition in 2006 marked a significant milestone, deepening his connection to his creative identity.

Rooted initially in abstract expressionism as a foundational reference, Sainz Garcia’s practice moves fluidly between painting and drawing, with occasional incursions into sculpture, installation, and performance. Central to his work is an ongoing exploration of pictorial techniques and materials, driven by a constant search for an authentic visual language. This language emerges from the subconscious and is characterised by spontaneity and elements of action painting.

An organic, sincere, and intimate mode of working forms the core of his aesthetic discourse. His practice seeks to capture the ephemeral, reinterpret the everyday, and reveal the residue of lived experience through colours and gestures that resist the passage of time. For Sainz Garcia, painting is an inevitable necessity — a means of illumination, both for himself and for the subjects of his exploration.

“My creative process is an adventure: a dance.. a performance… I aim to build a creative language to communicate and fulfil my need for expression. Intellectually, I want viewers to connect with something familiar yet new, provoking a different way of seeing. Emotionally, I aim for them to feel the same way they do when listening to their favourite song. There is no singular message in my work, but I hope for multiple messages and emotions to explode, ultimately striving for peace and calm after the storm.”