Madola

1960 -1966 - Studies in ceramics at the Escola Massana in Barcelona
1966 -1969 - Studies of ceramics at the Deltrebal School in Barcelona
1971 - Barcelona School of Arts and Crafts, ceramic section
1980 -1985 - Diploma from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Barcelona
1986 -1988 - Doctoral course at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Barcelona
2006 - Doctoral thesis “The influence of Joan Miró on contemporary Spanish ceramics", Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Barcelona

I found sources of inspiration living intensely in Catalonia, Barcelona and the Maresme, in the blue of the sea, in the brown of the carob trees and in the ocher of the earth; in my old neighborhood of Sarrià, in its quiet streets, where a monk was walking around reading a prayer book; in historic Barcelona, old black stones full of graffiti; in the studio of my childhood with my family, at the Museum of Romanesque art and also with Gaudí, Picasso, Miró, Tàpies; to drink from our culture open to the Mediterranean, but also from my travels by meeting the contrasts in the East, the mystery in the Arab and African countries, the identification in old Europe, the geographic and architectural exuberance in America. Sometimes I work as a musician, in the form of variations; I do a few series of works which differ from each other only by a small movement which moves, stacks or crushes the material on themselves.