Marcos Rodrigo, 1957 | Expressionist Figurative painter

Marcos Rodrigo is a contemporary Spanish-born figurative expressionist painter whose work prominently features the female form, sensuality and portraiture.

Born in Old Castile, Spain, his family moved to the Lot region of France when he was four years old.

Heavily influenced by his father, who was a sculptor and craftsman, Rodrigo developed an early appreciation for physical materials, texture, and structural form.

Rodrigo refers to himself as a "figurative expressionist" and famously views the blank surface of a canvas as a structural medium to be sculpted rather than just painted.

Marcos Rodrigo operates his main creative studio out of Léojac, a small village located in southwestern France near Toulouse.

He heavily utilizes a palette knife (spatula) to apply bold, sweeping strokes of oil and acrylic paint.

This builds up thick, physical textures that manipulate light and shadow directly on the canvas surface.

Women are the central figureheads and muses of his portfolio.

His portraits explore the complexity of human emotion, depicting figures that alternate between strength, vulnerability, dreaminess, and melancholia.

As a passionate, self-taught painter who began working with oil in the early 1990s, his style blends the grace of classical Italian Madonnas with the vibrant color palettes of the Impressionists and the intensity of German Expressionism.

Marcos Rodrigo è un pittore espressionista figurativo contemporaneo di origine spagnola ma naturalizzato francese.

Nato nel 1957 nella Vecchia Castiglia (Spagna), si è trasferito in Francia all'età di quattro anni, dove tuttora risiede e lavora.

Lavora principalmente con pittura ad olio, pastelli e disegno.

Le sue opere catturano la vitalità psicologica e l'umanità dei soggetti.