For Jordi Pedrola the universal language of art expresses itself through the strength of his Catalan roots. According to art critic Amalia Martinez, "To confront Jordi Pedrola's works, is to confront and experience color." Jordi makes his own paint, combining pigments with linseed oil, egg and wax in pre-Renaissance fashion, laying his colors on a highly personal surface — often on fine wood pieces taken from his father's cabinetry workshop.

Jordi Pedrola was born in Barcelona, Spain. He was schooled at the  University of Barcelona and later at the Winchester School of Art in the south of England. But it was the rich Romanesque Murals on display at the Art Museum of Catalonia, as well as the Romanesque Cathedrals of Venice & Padua, that laid the path for his work today. Since his first encounter with these Italian cities, the human face has been the great subject of Pedrola's paintings: flat, contemporary faces with deep eyes, deep entrances to the soul. The face merely provides an excuse for surface, where contrasting colors fight and shape balances the tension.

Jordi's work has been shown at exhibitions and in galleries in Spain, London & Italy as well as in Palm Beach & Miami, Santa Barbara, Saugatuck & Chicago, which he currently calls home. He has been featured in magazine articles in both Spain and Chicago and his work is collected by patrons on both sides of the Atlantic.

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Kisses to the Air	Serenissima Adriatica	Michael	Gabriel
Veneciana	Mantellina	Infantes	Coming Up
Mariona	Llevant & Xaloc	The Kiss 7	We Find No Words
	Michael Protects	Rafael Heals