B:K
About the artist
B:K is an artist born in 1999 in the Catalan Pyrenees. He began painting murals in 2018, as a self-taught artist, combining it with his university studies in 3D Animation and visual effects at the Ramon Llull University in Barcelona. With the arrival of Covid-19, he began to carry out oil paintings, leaving aside drawing and spray paint, and focusing exclusively on colour, brushstrokes and painting. Since then, in his figurative murals made with plastic paint, he instinctively improvises from the sketch, where he gives it a believable finish, but with a touch of surrealism or "aura" that distances it from reality. He has grown up in parallel in the culture of hip hop and graffiti but at the same time inspired by the more classical painting of Velázquez and Caravaggio, thus creating a type of painting based on chiaroscuro with a contemporary and current theme. His murals can be easily recognized by the themes he deals with, such as toxic love, the street and eccentric characters, finding beauty in what at first glance seems dirty, ugly and overloaded. All this has given rise to his particular brushstroke, loose and dynamic, creating striking images with a lot of emotional charge. Since 2019, B:K has painted for different national and international festivals with his particular style and vision.