José Emilio López Navarro

A self-taught painter born in Zaragoza, he has long made the Canary Islands his adopted home. During his youth, he painted from the age of twelve to eighteen under the guidance of the prominent Aragonese painter Iñaki Rodríguez. Following his relocation to Tenerife in 1986 for professional reasons, he returned to his artistic practice in 1994, balancing his passion with his career as a commercial agent for a multinational corporation. During this period, he began selling medium-format works to the island's interior design and tourism sectors, while also exhibiting in various galleries and cultural spaces across Tenerife.

For many years, he dedicated himself to studying the techniques of master artists such as Modigliani, Monet, Picasso, Magritte, and Botero. For the past fifteen years, his work has focused on the WPAP style, created by the Indonesian illustrator Wedha Abdul Rashid in the 1990s. Characterized by vector-like lines and geometric drawings, this style utilizes flat fields of color to evoke a three-dimensional, polyhedral depth, playing with a rich and vibrant palette.

His work includes the cover portrait of the iconic actress for the book Brigitte Bardot. España, cine, discos y vida by Matías Uribe Cobo.

He paints exclusively in acrylic, working on both canvas and canvas-covered board. His work has been showcased in numerous solo and group exhibitions.