The painting flows across the canvas like a stream of colour. A series of layers are opened up to let us see what is underneath them, in an attempt to transcend limits, towards a path leading nowhere, a place that is not our own.

The work of Felicidad Moreno is an expression of her very self. There is no fixed purpose and nothing to look for; it has nothing to do with reality. It is simply the artistic expression of the artist’s own interiority. It is a way of discovering oneself, of imposing order on a chaotic world: a means of finding one’s own equilibrium.

She was trained in the studio of Francisco Soto Mesa (1946) and at the Círculo de Bellas Artes and began her artistic career in the eighties, becoming one of the most innovative painters of the time. She evolved from figurative expressionism to a geometrism in which colour and expression of movement are her principal resources.

To understand Felicidad Moreno’s work one must realise that each of her pictures is like an adventure of which not even she foresees the outcome. She lets herself be swept along as she paints, producing impressions in colour, worlds of their own entirely without conscious thought. These improvisations reflect an obsession with circles, lines and spirals, forms which unconsciously bring her painting close to primitivism.

Her collective exhibition at La Granja de San Ildefonso marked an evolution in her work. The light and the geometry became less rigid, her use of colour was established, and she used it to create forms which acquired a more precise undulating movement than before.
She creates spaces that are unlocated, disembodied, just colour. Materials and the use of black are fundamental elements in her work. In this piece, specifically, she uses honey-coloured varnish like paint to produce that orange tone. Everything comes as a surprise. She creates a cosmic background consisting of networks of large circles all the same size, some coloured in and others not, conveying an illusion of movement. Over these she lets the material flow, follow a natural movement and find its own path beyond the borders of the picture.