Biography

Juan Pedro Sanchez was born in July 1954 in a small town in the province of Cáceres, Torrejón el Rubio, today included in the National Park Monfragüe. An outgoing young rebellious teenager moved with his parents and four siblings to the city of Plasencia, regional capital, where more facilities would have to openly develop a profession, an education and an emerging ability to art and aesthetics.

Even young, married. His wife, who soon realized their facility in drawing and painting, he knew how to motivate and encourage the young artist get to set a modest little painting studio in the apartment where they lived, where he would develop his early works, mostly paintings, of theme and style have not purified, still lifes, still lifes, portraits ...

In 1986 the young family moved to live in the country. There, the profusion of colors and smells, the plasticity of the landscapes, the quiet slow and bright light, together with the provision of a more adequate and comprehensive where they can develop their work, fueling his desire to delve into this vast art world for which he is totally and hopelessly seduced.

Along with the paintings, which are gaining value and knowledge from local collectors, began to elaborate a series of medium format sculptures will soon draw the attention of authorities and cultural institutions will propose its adaptation to various museums and squares . The exhibitions will take place, their production increases.

Be for these years, thanks to mediation of local cultural authorities to launch an ambitious museum project in the city of Plasencia.
It would be a vast open air museum in one of the most caring and most visited parks of John Peter would founder and initiator, and now has the prestige of many books and recognition of cultural interest by the trustees and tourism and cultural institutions throughout the region, the Parque de los Pinos Plasencia City.

In 1990, following the desire to deepen and broaden their own technique, so far self taught, will attend the Fine Arts Center where you will receive lessons Rodrigo German modeling around and pottery, Raku, etc. In this center, some years later, completed their training on the advice of renowned author Julio López.

After exposure in neighboring Lisbon (Gallery Trindade), the first contacts with authors lisboners Alentejo. These meetings will result in a relationship now goes beyond the strictly professional and that will germinate the idea of painting and sculpture meetings annual or biennial on both sides of the border. Thus arises Arts Encounters of Paço de Arcos and Vendas Novas and nearly a dozen meetings Iberian.

The culmination of this stage will come with the painter's presence in the capital, Madrid, where he is welcomed and where their work will benefit under various collectors and galleries in the city.

In 1998, Plasencia was founded in Plattonia International Academy, a collaborative effort of several local authors and from which seeks to promote and disseminate art in all its aspects, in the region. Academic founder, decided to withdraw from the academy a few years to devote himself exclusively to artistic creation. Although it continued to belong to the Royal International Academy "City of Rome (Italy) where he was named an Academic in 1997, and the Association of Painters and Sculptors of Madrid, which is a member since 1996.

Turn a new family to the city of Plasencia. The new house where they are installed shall meet the requirements of the sculptor who will allow him to gamble his own studio and workshop on the lower floors of the building where space and light allow the maturation of the projects already planned and desired by the author. Enlightened intellectual maturity and insight will be felt in the new series designed artistic, maybe those of the most proud are the author.

The new neighborhood is aware of the presence Juan Pedro Sanchez in it, will draw on the presence and involvement of new neighbor in the community and soon take care you make a sculpture representing the district and its values. The sculpture is offered as a prize in the annual awards granted to the most relevant personalities and institutions of the moment. Also, sculpture, fused and in large proportions, you can admire one of the squares of the city, El Pilar de la Amistad.

Another major project that has faced Juan Pedro has been the design and creation of the passage of Easter Week procession each year in Torrejón el Rubio. A Christ of the Column as emotional expressiveness and not left unmoved grateful to the people who knew how to compensate the authors included among the members brethren of his order.

Currently, new materials, new techniques applied and a tireless quest for discovering the beautiful, unique, subtle or sharp, are advocating a long life of the author.


Character of the work

His natural talent for drawing is the starting point and origin of all artistic development that reflect today his paintings, matured after learning methodology and personnel in order to download them all their passion, desires plastic and aesthetic ideals.
Pursued in their work volume, clean stroke, the strength of a color or shade may be deduced from the looks of order and balance of their work. Nothing is superfluous in them.

His sculpture is rotund, sharp, his silky and warm bronze. A new concept of setting lets you merge homogeneous materials so it is impossible to derive the one ends and the beginning of another. His sculptures are rooted respect for each announce their origins and life in a land he loves.
Thus, his Extremadura also becomes the muse of creation.

True to himself, loyal to their work, rejects art as interchangeable simple matter to raise it to self-expression, relief of fatigue terrestrial or evasion of a world materialized. In the end, grant victory to the sincere and spontaneous art is his greatest achievement.