{"id":958,"date":"2020-04-02T17:28:13","date_gmt":"2020-04-02T15:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monapart.com\/magazine\/?p=958"},"modified":"2025-06-20T16:17:23","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T14:17:23","slug":"interview-bea-sarrias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monapart.com\/magazine\/en\/hogar\/entrevista-bea-sarrias","title":{"rendered":"Building with brushes: Interview with Bea Sarrias"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Building with brushes: Interview with Bea Sarrias<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">In this interview she tells us how her vocation was born, what inspires her to work and what a home portrait photographer's home is like.<\/h2>\n\n\n<div class='post-info'>2 April 2020 by <a href='https:\/\/www.monapart.com\/magazine\/en\/autor\/monapart'>Monapart<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.monapart.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/scale_960xn_\/public\/mediabrowser\/retratobea-de-pie.jpg?itok=0aXjEqyz\" alt=\"Building with brushes: Interview with Bea Sarrias | Monapart \" title=\"Bea Sarrias\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Due to our activity, at Monapart we work every day with images of houses: photographs, renderings, plans... But we are not used to seeing architectural portraits. And just like with good portraits, the painting of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/beasarrias\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bea Sarrias<\/a> manages to capture the soul of the constructions that are the protagonists of his works. <\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\">Tell us about yourself and your work. Where did your vocation start? Any first memories?<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>I always remember me with a pencil in my hand. My father used to get a kick out of buying me those red ENRI pads. He used to tell me that he would buy me a new one once I had \"filled\" all the pages. Besides, I'm the youngest of seven siblings, I'm 7 years older than the one I'm closest to. When they were studying, the only way I could be with them was if I was quiet... that only happened when I was painting!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Inside \/ Bea Sarrias paint sketches for NATO ENG Subt 02\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/316560278?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\">What do you find most satisfying about your work, and is there anything you are particularly proud of?<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>I put the best of myself into all my work at the time. Perhaps the ones I am happiest about are the ones I have done with my husband, Morrosko Vila-San-Juan. He is a filmmaker and we have managed to make pictorial-audiovisual projects. Sometimes he has made a documentary part of the project as in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beasarrias.com\/work\/2019\/3\/26\/portrait-of-the-nato-hq\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">INSIDE<\/a>I did a mural in 2019 for the NATO headquarters in Brussels and in others we have complemented each other, such as \"Un d\u00eda en La Ricarda\", on a house by the architect Antonio Bonet Castellana or \"La Cima\", on an abandoned house by the architect Jos\u00e9 Antonio Coderch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are currently working on a building designed by architect Manuel Baldrich, the current headquarters of Santa&amp;Cole. Hopefully the project will see the light of day in September.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.monapart.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/scale_960xn_\/public\/mediabrowser\/img_7197.jpg?itok=xkz12Z32\" alt=\"Building with brushes: Interview with Bea Sarrias | Monapart \" title=\"Bea Sarrias\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\">What is your creative process like?<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>I don't paint spaces, I portray them. My painting revolves around architecture. For me architecture is the tool to be able to paint light.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First I document an architect or space, then I choose the images and the format of the painting. This process is the longest, but without it I don't manage to capture the soul of the space I am going to portray. I usually paint several paintings at the same time, there comes a time when I have to decide to finish them and not start a new one. Starting a painting is the most exciting part for me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote alignright is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\"I don't paint spaces, I portray them. For me, architecture is the tool to be able to paint light.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\">Favourite colour, book and record - in that order!<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>White.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Wreath of flowers<\/em>by Javier Calvo (edited by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.megustaleer.com\/libros\/corona-de-flores\/MES-020947\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Random House Literature<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The soundtrack of <em>Blade Runner<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.monapart.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/scale_960xn_\/public\/mediabrowser\/casa-e-y-libreria-130x195-cm-2017.jpg?itok=_qhvWWnL\" alt=\"Building with brushes: Interview with Bea Sarrias | Monapart \" title=\"Bea Sarrias\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\">Is your home a reflection of who you are? Tell us about your favourite corner, your favourite piece of furniture... And if you have a pet, introduce it to us!<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>My house does not reflect who I am. My favourite places are the forest and the sea. Open spaces. My favourite piece of furniture is the Rietveld chair, given to me by my brother who is an architect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have a grey rabbit that runs around the house like a cat \ud83d\ude42 I have a grey rabbit that runs around the house like a cat \ud83d\ude42 I have a grey rabbit that runs around the house like a cat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.monapart.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/scale_960xn_\/public\/mediabrowser\/img-0826_-_bea_sarrias.jpg?itok=FB4CoLwl\" alt=\"Building with brushes: Interview with Bea Sarrias | Monapart \" title=\"Bea Sarrias\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\">If you could buy anything right now and take it home, what would it be? Anything!<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>To a friend or a plane ticket.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\">A great plan at home always includes...<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>Friends and good food. Lots of laughs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\">Do you have a signature dish?<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>Gazpacho and fideu\u00e1. One day I cooked fideu\u00e1 for Leopoldo Pom\u00e9s, he told me it was the best he had ever tasted... I think I was especially lucky that day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.monapart.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/scale_960xn_\/public\/mediabrowser\/casa-g-y-hamaca-100x100cm-2017.jpg?itok=SjJ5uV_8\" alt=\"Building with brushes: Interview with Bea Sarrias | Monapart \" title=\"Bea Sarrias\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\">Where is your favourite place in your city and abroad?<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>I like Barcelona a lot. The best thing is to get lost. I discover iconic buildings in every corner of the city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>New York is one of the cities I have most enjoyed looking at 360\u00ba. You don't finish it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\">Anything you want to tell us that we haven't asked you, speak now or forever hold your peace!<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>My painting focuses on architecture, especially iconic architecture. This type of architecture is the best tool for painting light. My work is constantly evolving. I started painting only interior spaces, with a very reduced colour palette and little by little I have been going \"outside\" until I have been painting the landscape surrounding the architecture and I have been adding colour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.monapart.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/scale_960xn_\/public\/mediabrowser\/bea_sarrias_5_-_bea_sarrias.jpg?itok=uKm6vsSs\" alt=\"Building with brushes: Interview with Bea Sarrias | Monapart \" title=\"Bea Sarrias\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>If you are interested in architecture, painting, or both disciplines together, enter the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beasarrias.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bea Sarrias's website<\/a>\u00a0to get to know all his work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Bea Sarrias does not paint houses, she portrays them. And in each of her paintings we see not only the architecture, but also the atmosphere, the light and the memory that inhabits these spaces. His work is a bridge between art and architecture, between the silence of the walls and the voice of the person who interprets them. In a world full of fleeting images, his painting invites us to stop, observe and feel. And perhaps that is what makes his work so necessary: a way of looking at architecture with different eyes.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this interview she tells us how her vocation was born, what inspires her to work and what a home portrait photographer's home is like.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":959,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2844,2845],"tags":[2868],"class_list":["post-958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hogar","category-mi-monapart","tag-arte"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monapart.com\/magazine\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monapart.com\/magazine\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monapart.com\/magazine\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monapart.com\/magazine\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monapart.com\/magazine\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=958"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.monapart.com\/magazine\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16228,"href":"https:\/\/www.monapart.com\/magazine\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958\/revisions\/16228"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monapart.com\/magazine\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monapart.com\/magazine\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monapart.com\/magazine\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monapart.com\/magazine\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}