20^th Century Spanish
 
Savater studied at the San Fernando School of Fine Arts in Madrid from 1972 to 1977. A year later, thanks to a scholarship from the Centro de Investigación de Nuevas Formas Expresivas to study the magical and pagan roots of Basque culture, he travelled throughout the north of Spain.

From that moment onwards his painting evolved towards a romantic vision of landscape. Removed from any of the prevailing movements, Savater’s practice evolved towards abstraction yet without renouncing his characteristic representations of nature, based on a profound knowledge of materials and also of colours and the codes of representation.

Savater practices a painting that draws from Symbolism and the Pre-Raphaelites, hence the sense of mystery shrouding his works, which could well be ascribed within .

In the 1980s he began to exhibit individually: at Galería Sen in 1980; at Galería Gamarra y Garrigues in 1991; and at Galería Antonio Machón in 1998. After 1987 he started to gain an international reputation, taking part at the 19^th Sao Paulo Biennial, and at the Aperto of the 43^rd Venice Biennale in 1988, and the Brisbane World Expo (Australia) in 1988.