Felipe Martínez-Villalba (Bucaramanga, Colombia, 1987) is a visual artist whose work explores the connection between nature, identity, and memory through installation, painting, photography, and ceramics. Trained in London, he holds a BA Hons in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins (2015). His trajectory is profoundly shaped by his childhood in the Colombian rural landscape—an experience that continues to nourish his practice with an organic and vital sensitivity, permeated by nostalgia for the natural surroundings where he was raised.

From his earliest large-scale spatial experiments in childhood to his recent evolution toward painting, his work brings to life dreamlike worlds inhabited by figures that question belonging and origin. His work explores colour and diorama as transversal pulses—intuitive and vibrant languages that connect his installative universe with his pictorial imagery. When he feels far from home and his roots, he responds to alienation through his creative practice and artistic discipline.

Currently based in Madrid, Felipe’s research focuses on the recurring appearance of characters he calls “Viscontinos”: figures that seem to emerge from the subconscious and serve as portals to ancestral memory. These presences, charged with familial intimacy, permeate his personal imagination and are brought to life especially in his painting practice, consolidating a trajectory that moves between the spiritual, the autobiographical, and the symbolic.