Botany + watercolors. The perfect sum of the Spanish portrait painter Riso Chan

The Spanish artist returns to her flooded portraits, although this time she explores nature within the human being.

Her real name is Ángela María Sierra , daughter of a sculptor mother, although in Amsterdam where she now lives she is better known as Riso Chan .

Portrait as a way of life by Riso Chan

The important thing, however, is the interior, as she herself has demonstrated in each and every one of her works. Portraits and self-portraits that have become her trademark because they are flooded, superimposing the subject matter on whatever she needs to give voice to at that moment with the greatest brilliance.

“Portrait is a very powerful way to express human emotions and beauty.”

Riso Chan

Botany is the theme chosen to flood his new work

While in her previous works, such as Still A Kid Inside , Chan, who is also a creative teacher, explored the childhood that we never lose, filling her portraits with the doodles of very young apprentice painters, she has now decided to use botany (branches, leaves, flowers, gardens) as a colourful reflection of the soul of her creations . And therefore also of those who look at them.

Riso Chan's innovative technique for bringing his works to life.

For her, portraits “are a language in themselves, which does not use words to communicate,” and she creates them, as she explains on her website , using a mix of watercolors and then the Procreate program, which allows her to “work digitally but maintain an artisanal touch.”