GABRIELA MEUNIÉ
Faith in oneself
Gabriela Meunié (Santanyí, 1987) wanted to be an artist ever since she was small. Her father, Julien Meunié, was an abstract painter, and thanks to him she was able to meet prestigious artists like Miquel Barceló, Lin Utzon, Gottfried Mairwöger and Peter Marquant. “I was impressed by Marquant’s studio because it was small and intimate, and Lin Utzon’s house and minimalist painting”. She lives in Bordeaux now, combining her two loves - for painting and for her young son, Pablo.
text C.M.M.
When she was small, Gabriela’s father, Julien, painted in an old renovated cowshed in s’Hort de Ca’n Nigorra, in Santanyí. It was a large, bright space, with stone and sand walls, located over a huge safareig, or water cistern. Artists from all over the world would come and spend periods of time there. “My father was the only one who lived there permanently. Those were years when I learned to observe the effervescence of the age. When I was eight I painted my first picture, a huge rainbow they tasked me with”, she remembers.
Her father died when she was 13. “It was a difficult time. But life goes on and in the end, everything gradually falls into place, provided you know what you want and are on the right path. That calls for constant work, but I [...]
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