Jesús Morilla is a Spanish artist and creative born in Seville in 1975, although he spent his life in Barcelona, where he earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Barcelona. Immediately after finishing his studies, Morilla moved to Madrid, then to Seville, and back to Madrid, where he currently lives and works.

After his early years devoted entirely to artistic creation, with solo exhibitions and various accolades, his creative exploration led him to embark on an intense professional career as an advertising Creative Director and Art Director, which lasted 18 years at top agencies in Spain and Germany, where he also lived for a time.

This period of professional creative activity in a field outside the visual arts scene leads him to adopt a different perspective on painting. The knowledge gained about the economic scene, business, and consumer societies gradually shapes, from the shadows, a new approach to art. More free and eclectic. More sensory.

Today, Morilla’s work remains a continuous exploration of the expressive capabilities of visual communication. As Creative Director of his own design studio, where brand strategies and concepts are developed.

As an artist, Morilla has been developing a new plastic exploration for the past few years that revisits increasingly simpler visual aspects, where color and form try to find a conceptual meaning capable of expressing complex emotions.

In his works, we can subtly recognize increasingly elemental forms: trees, planets, rays of light, horizons… all of them are actors that play a leading role, as they organize the environment and give it meaning with their mere presence. These elements are almost always shown individually, almost like portraits, as it is necessary to be aware of their presence and identity, and they do not require any other compositional form to organize them, other than their striking presence.

That objectual presence is also explored from the very essence of the work, where the lines that define the support blur: unstretched canvases, frames that are part of the painting itself, or they complete the work with their color as another plastic element… It is to be expected that disciplines are also somewhat vague categories, and currently, Morilla works with different supports that intertwine with the artwork, forming pieces that are difficult to classify.

Currently, Morilla carries out his work from Madrid, where he resides.