Soulful artists

05/03/2025

With sensitivity, talent, perseverance and creativity. This is how a select group of female creators living in Mallorca have become an artistic reference point, inspired by the island's lifestyle.

This group includes established artists such as Yannick Vu, who has exhibited her paintings and sculptures in Paris, New York and also in Rialto Living. Or Lin Utzon, daughter of the famous architect of the Sydney Opera House, Jørn Utzon, who finds inspiration for her works in Can Feliz, the home her father built in Felanitx.

Tamara Lloyd Cox draws her own paradise with protective animals, especially dragons and tigers, always around the sea. Another young and very interesting artist is Carmen Arbós, with her spontaneous and disorderly paintings, abstract and figurative at the same time.

Andrea Castro is a young artist who shapes her universe of portraits and enigmatic stories with expressive and figurative paintings, while Elena Gual creates her paintings with a palette knife ‘as if they were passages from my own life’.

Three artists who have already exhibited at the Rialto Living art gallery are Vera Edwards, Estefanía Pomar Aloy, and Carlota Bauzá de Mirabó.

Vera Edwards was born in California, but grew up in Mallorca and now has her studio in the countryside of Felanitx. She is a cosmopolitan painter who uses soft and natural tones that unconventionally capture the rustic essence of the Island.

As for Estefanía Pomar Aloy, her canvases are an expression of her inner world, full of sensitivity to nature, especially to marine scenes.

The paintings of Carlota Bauzá de Mirabó are a reflection of everyday life in Mallorca, depicted with vibrant, cheerful colours and texture, where nature, the sea, or light are recurring themes.

For some time now, the illustrator Marian Moratinos has been working with digital and analogue techniques to create highly colourful works of art, with many layers of drawing.

Meanwhile, from the village of Esporles, Cruz Ugarte acknowledges that when she draws she experiences ‘a struggle with perfectionism. If you draw more, you do it better, and sometimes that's not good because you lose the ability to play when you try to make it perfect’.

Adriana Meunié works with wool, esparto grass, raffia, old yarns and leather to highlight the island's millenary culture through her looms. While the German Anna Lena Kortmann, a trained architect who is in love with Mallorca, designs furniture that she strings herself following the ancestral method of the island's artisans.

Mariana de Delás, also an architect, links nature and ecology in her projects, which explore the crossovers between art and architecture.

The photographer Coco Capitán has exhibited her work from Paris to Seoul and now lives in Mallorca, where she finds the inspiration she needs in nature and local craftsmanship.

Another interesting case is Marta Juan, who created Cossiol in 2014 and focuses on ‘the art of getting her hands dirty’, creating household and decorative objects.

Another outstanding ceramist is Tonia Fuster, whose lamps with a clear Mediterranean and Balearic inspiration have a worldwide following. Just like Balbina Fullana's pieces, which are a reflection of ‘slow and minimalist work, linked to a more sustainable and closer life’.

If you're an art lover, remember that you can enjoy Rialto Living's exhibitions all year round, with works by renowned and new artists, both Mallorcan and international, all of whom are extremely talented.