Enrique Santana

Enrique Santana is an internationally acclaimed painter from Lepe (Huelva), whose distinguished career includes the Medal of Andalusia (2001) and the Gold Medal of the City of Lepe (2000). He left his hometown at a young age to build a career as a painter, developing a realist-impressionist style. Over the years he has alternated between the landscapes of Chicago, where he lived for almost three decades and kept a studio for 25 years, and the Atlantic Ocean and the luminous coast of Huelva, a region he admires and actively promotes. Water has remained a constant subject in his work: Lake Michigan reminded him of the sea of his native Huelva. His paintings have been acquired for public and private collections around the world, from Helsinki to San Francisco, with a particularly notable presence in Chicago, and are regularly shown in leading galleries and art fairs in Europe and America.