About Martha Escondeur

My name is Martha Escondeur and I am a painter and sculptor. I was born in Uruguay, South America, far to the south, and in a small inland town called Canelones. At the age of twelve, I held my first exhibition, and from then on, my life has been dedicated to art and living for and for it. I am self-taught, although I have had the opportunity to meet and establish friendship with great Masters of Uruguayan painting, and to train myself by reading and experimenting with new techniques. I have made exhibitions since 1972, constantly, both in my country and abroad. Thanks to art I have traveled a lot and I have been nourished by those experiences. I exhibited throughout the United States, and in Europe, in Holland, Spain, Belgium, France. Many of my works are in private collections in Uruguay and in other parts of the world. I have received awards and mentions throughout a career of more than forty years dedicated to art. I am dedicated to painting, both oils and acrylics and sculpture in all its possibilities, marble, bronze, ceramics, resins. At present, I live in Uruguay where I have a beautiful, spacious workshop that allows me to develop all disciplines, listening to music, and enjoying a beautiful garden that surrounds my house. What inspires my work? Since childhood, the human figure was what attracted the most. I made sculptures and human forms in clay and portrayed everyone around me. It continues to be my passion, and that is what my work focuses on. I am a portraitist, I do commission portraits and I also make life-size busts and sculptures, which is why my work is known and sought after in my country. I have many busts and sculptures in public spaces. I work by Series, and each one of them contains a narrative and a story that I develop. It often happens to me that an idea suddenly comes to my mind, something that I see in others or the world around me, and I must express it. All my works are original, and I love to work on a large scale. Many of my works are of significant sizes. That does not mean that he also makes small works, and that he considers them beautiful, but the freedom of a large canvas is an incredible feeling.