Ramon Vilanova

Biography

Acclaimed by art critics and represented in prominent and distinguished collections throughout Europe, Ramon Vilanova is one of the great landscape painters living in Europe. His works have brought him more than 30 1st place prizes in major competitions and his work is in the permanent collection of many museums, a further testament to the credibility and importance of this extraordinary artist.

Ramon was born and raised near Barcelona, Spain. He continues to live and to create in these idyllic surroundings in rural Catalonia to the north. His love of the landscape is deep and he senses instinctively how to capture its beauty, as he is thoroughly a part of it.

The artist has a remarkable, intuitive understanding of color. Several prominent European art critics have described Ramon as a "colorist" as his works contain a palette that by its subject matter demands the nuance and surprise of color so that we may properly interpret his sense of immediacy. Vilanova is an instinctive painter with need to paint, in tune with his environment, he is acutely aware of the tonalities and half tones that light creates with color.

Vilanova is a self-taught artist, who, though new to the U.S. art market, has been exhibiting in Europe with great success since the early 1970s. He has continued to refine and further define his craft and interpretation to where he really has no contemporary peer in the visual and emotional interpretation of landscapes and seascapes.