Creative process

My curiosity about botanical dyeing began when I found a book about Leonardo da Vinci's botanical drawings, The sage leaf that he saved, was printed and preserved over time.

_this seemed to me the most poetic idea in art in the sense of preserving the timelessness of the impression, TO obtain a unique and unrepeatable element that comes from nature really excited my mind and my heart. _

The traces of a leaf or a petal on the paper are unique, which is why you will never be able to obtain 2 identical botanical prints. Time contributes to this exercise by giving greater clarity, intensity and beauty to the print.

Botanical Work 2023
Botanical Work 2024

Narrative drawings

As I do love drawing, I decided to dedicate my practice to the narrative and poetic field in drawing.

The narrative is a tool that allows me to approach an astrological theme. Poetry is what brings me closer to the stars, constellations and therefore to the colours of the universe. I started botanical dyeing to place drawings into the colours of nature, it was always in my heart and mind recreate a narrative in drawing full of magic and tenderness.

Drawings

Biography

Andrea Seguraz is a Peruvian artist and architect, Based in Lima / peru and london / uk.

  • BA Architect / Lima, Peru.

  • Studied a workshop of narrative drawing and portraiture / London, UK.

  • Courses Amaya Gurpide's narrative drawing workshop / New York, US.

  • Courses the poetry workshop of Alice Kinsella and Eileen Casey. She wrote the collection of poems “Symbols for the decoding of seeds” / London, Uk.

  • Studied at the Prado Museum about “Italian art in the Prado Museum through artistic relations with Italy (16th/18th centuries)” / Madrid, Spain.

  • Studied at the Prado Museum the “7 Mythological works that Titian made for Philip II from Spain”. She began the narrative investigation of “Venus and Adonis” by Titian in relation to the reinterpretation of Veronese´s painting and Shakespeare´s work / Madrid, Spain.

  • Participated in the 4th edition of the “Two generation" drawing contest organized by the British Peruvian Cultural Center / Lima, Peru.

    Her drawing of the "Two Generations" contest was on display at the John Harriman Gallery of the British Peruvian Cultural Center in Lima, Peru.

  • Studied a workshop of the “Sorolla in Black” paintings exhibited at the Sorolla Museum / Madrid, Spain.

    Studied a workshop about the narrative paintings of Francisco Pradilla at the Prado Museum / Madrid, Spain.

    Studied Audrey Rocaro Laplanche´s workshop of natural pigments for painting and drawing / Montquc, France.

  • Studied the narrative of Jean Paul Laurens´s painting “La Mort de sainte Geneviève” in the Pantheon of Paris, France.

  • Courses a workshop of botanical experimentation with herbs, flowers and plants in Lima, Peru.

  • Carried out tests and research on oxidation processes that allowed her to obtain a special tone on the paper and thus introduce narrative drawings.