ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE
SEPTEMBER - OCTOBER 2026
Raquel de la Coba Martinez
Visual Artist | Muralist
From Madrid Spain
ARTIST STATEMENT
Visual artist and muralist. With a degree in Fine Arts and a Master’s in Contemporary Artistic Practices, her work lies at the intersection of the individual and the collective within the urban landscape.
Her interventions in public space explore how visual transformations reflect the city’s shifting identity and cultural fabric. Through painting—where form and color become language—she connects urban and natural environments, opening landscapes that act as emotional refuges and internal climates: spaces that invite reflection on belonging amid chaos.
With organic forms and open compositions, she explores the need to find one’s own place. Her practice weaves connections between the domestic, the collective, and the intimate, activating a deeper awareness of the inhabited environment.
I have dedicated my artistic practice to investigating the relationship between organism, territory, and painting as a form of situated knowledge. My work arises from the need to understand landscape as a direct experience that traverses the physical, the emotional, and the collective.
I grew up in Madrid, an urban environment where nature appears fragmented and distant. From an early age, through contact with natural environments and my experience in the scouts, I developed a relationship with landscape based on movement, observation, and extended time outdoors. This experience underpins my practice, where nature operates as a mode of thought and as a space of pause in contrast to contemporary acceleration.
I work predominantly with painting and mural intervention, understanding the pictorial gesture as an extension of embodied presence and as a direct mode of engagement with space. Large-scale work introduces a physical and temporal dimension in which the environment directly conditions both process and outcome.
The residency at LoMon Contemporáneo, in the Valle del Echo (Huesca, Spain), marked a turning point in my practice. Prolonged immersion in the landscape and working through observation redefined my approach to production, establishing a more attentive relationship with place and its rhythms.
I have developed projects across different territories in Spain through mural interventions in both urban and rural contexts, where the work is constructed in dialogue with space and its everyday dynamics. In my most recent research, I have been working with the creation of imaginary pictorial spaces: non-existent gardens and mental landscapes in which nature becomes a symbolic and perceptual structure.
My practice brings together painting and public-space intervention, generating spaces of pause and shared attention. Through colour, material, and scale, painting activates connections between corporeal experience, territory, and memory. At present, I continue to develop my artistic practice, allowing it to evolve organically over time.