MY STORY

Hello! I'd like to introduce myself.

My name is Carmen Sáez and I am a Spanish visual artist residing in The Hague, Netherlands.

When I was studying Fine Arts in Murcia, Spain, I was a girl full of dreams and ideals, I wanted to see the world and I had a hunch that my destiny was to travel the world with my art.

I wanted to be inspired by different civilizations, people along the way, and many, many adventures.

I was so thirsty for adventure that in my final year of university, I had the opportunity to go to Istanbul, Turkey. There I worked as a dancer with the Baba Zula group, and it was undoubtedly an experience I will always cherish. I could tell you a thousand stories from that time.

When I returned to Murcia from Turkey in 2010, I finished my last Fine Arts exam and was hit with a crisis ; the very foundations of my life literally shook. I realized, or at least I thought, that there was no longer a place for art , that my fantasy world had ended, and that it was time to accept that not all dreams come true.

That's how in 2012 I came to the Netherlands, attracted by the Dutch people's love of art, the light reflected in their paintings, and the freedom of Dutch society.

I like to start over and create new realities, but I recognize that at the beginning it was an uphill battle, I worked very hard and above all I wanted to find a place in this country.

I also learned to love nature in the forest, and this would later greatly influence my painting.

Here I became a Visual Arts teacher, in the cities of Maastricht and Eindhoven. I studied hard for it, I dedicated my Master's thesis to "Sustainability and International Education" and I received a grade of Outstanding.

I really enjoyed the teaching, and thanks to preparing the topics and teaching them, I was able to reaffirm my knowledge and what is now my artistic discourse.

When my first child was born in 2018, I dropped everything to care for him. More than a decision, I felt an overwhelming need to paint , to reconnect with what I had lived and enjoyed, and above all, with the activity that brought my soul peace. I painted mostly in the forest, in nature. I painted to fall in love with the land of my children.

And so, a month before the pandemic, in November 2019, I was commissioned to paint a mural, which had to be canceled due to COVID. That's how my art business was born, and it took shape after the pandemic.

I started teaching painting in The Hague and producing my own artwork. Today I am very proud of how far I have come and I look forward to the future with great enthusiasm.

I also realized that it's good to listen to the people around you, but more important is listening to myself and being true to myself and my art.

Now you know a little bit more about me.

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