She was born in Barcelona in 1964. She graduated in Philosophy at the Navarra University (1987); in 1991 she is granted a scholarship for the Finland Academy (Helsinki) and a year later she becomes associated researcher at the Glasgow University (Scotland).
In 1990 she enters into the world of painting. She studies drawing at the Helsinki University, watercolour at Glasgow's and, later on, oil at the Academy-Shop Esfera d'Art, of Sant Cugat. In 2005 she works out urban landscapes with Manuel Ruiz Ortega, professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts of Barcelona.
She has exhibited, both privately and collectively, in a number of countries, including ours. She has been awarded several prizes such as the Premi Cartell del Concurs de Pintura Ràpida Francesc Cabanas Alibau, Sant Cugat del Vallès, in the year 2000. The second Europe prize 2006, from the Galleria d'arte moderna Alba (Italy). A Scholarship from our Ministry of Culture for the promotion of Spanish artists. And a First Prize X Contest of the Spanish Chamber of Commerce in France and the Spanish College in Paris (2008).
The reporter and art critic Josep M. Cadena has written about her:
Colour –that is, light – is Núria Vallès' great discovery as a painter. Thanks to colour her always lively emotional response when trying to work for the collective resolve of unearthing new milestones for the spirit, is substantiated by a highly persuasive style. Looking at her paintings –I am now thinking of that one she titles Despertar (Awakening) representing Barcelona urban agglomeration – we are not afraid, quoting Rubén Darío, of themunicipal and thick community, but are thrilled to see instead how a great variety of characters can find pleasure in working jointly without ever giving up her own identity.
What's more, she does it with the conscience of the Nature we must respect –the trees we see in the foreground; the work that dignifies us –the chimneys and the tall buildings -; the religious spirituality of a tower – condensing those of the temple of the Holy Family -; and the cosmic emotion of the sea, the mountain and the sky.
I do not wish to spend much time portraying Núria Vallès' paintings in this exhibition I am now presenting. The catalogue already gives us some ideas about many of them and the exhibition, that opens up to a new season of the Rusiñol Gallery which I consider a must to visit, give us plenty of reasons for each one of us to find our own interpretative sentiments.
I'm more interested in projecting a vision of the ensemble about a painter that has a solid academic formation, both in philosophy and art, and who has not allowed the intellectual conjecture nor the exclusive representation of the tangible reality to rule her.
Núria Vallès has the traveler's zest and the ability to be interested in everything always with smiling lips. She makes it easy to understand the environment she paints, while loving it is also simple because of the human virtues we can detect on it.
She knows the ideal is to be found beyond matter and she wants to be a part of it when her time comes, although she also believes that getting there must be done happily and by means of the understanding of what the day-to-day may bring us.
Just as in the Nature world there are many beautiful things, in our human doings and in the makings of our society it is also reasonable to accept that over any vices there are virtues. And with this commendable spirit she paints and transmits to us much more than awareness: a rational and well experienced living manner within a permanent internal evolution.
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