A painter, poster maker and stage designer with deep roots in his home town of Bilbao, García Ergüin is hard to classify as an artist. Influenced by international movements, his practice gradually evolved from expressionist figuration to an essentially , to which the artist arrived following a natural progression as he focused on the expressive qualities of stains and blotches of colour, a legacy from the Spanish painting tradition, rounded off with the contribution of visual resources of the utmost technical quality.

Although García Ergüin explored a range of subject matters, landscape plays a preponderant role in his work. That is the case of this painting which also exemplifies to perfection the evolution in its style. It is dated in the early nineties, the beginning of a period of fertile work and critical acclaim in which he worked on a series of paintings based on the sky of Lanzarote. Worth mentioning is his close relationship with the island ever since his first visit in the seventies. Its environment exerted on him a particularly evocative power that would never leave his work and remains visible in much of his production.

In Green Yellow Light we can see how the artist extracts an elegant evocation of the hazy sky so characteristic of the Canary Islands to create a work of high visual impact and great painterly elegance. In executing it, the artist allows himself be carried along by the act of painting: references vanish and the sky is turned into an abstract composition with evidently poetic connotations and even of marked lyricism. The loose and energetic brushwork evinces the artist’s technical mastery and extraordinary sensibility. The result is a sublime landscape in which the depiction of light is used to underline a spiritual background.