About the Artist

Noelia Vaquero is a contemporary Spanish painter specializing in oil on canvas. Her work stands at the intersection of figuration and symbolism, and explores light as a language of revelation, transformation, and presence.

With a contemporary sensibility and a classical technical foundation, she develops a body of work centred on identity, spirituality, beauty, and that which cannot be represented literally, but can be made visible through the image.

Biography

Born in Madrid, Noelia Vaquero painted from an early age, although her path toward full dedication to art was not linear. For many years, she developed a professional career in graphic design, web design, and multimedia, a period that left a visible mark on her way of constructing the image, understanding colour, and working with composition.

A turning point came during her time in Galway, Ireland, where she deepened her practice in drawing and traditional oil painting techniques. The experience of Atlantic light, in dialogue with her Mediterranean visual heritage, was decisive in the consolidation of her pictorial language.

After returning to Spain, she continued to develop her artistic practice until, in 2025, she decided to devote herself fully to painting. She currently lives and works in Extremadura, Spain.

Artist Statement

She paints light not as a physical phenomenon, but as a language of revelation and transformation. Her work seeks to make visible that which cannot be represented literally: presence, memory, identity, or the spiritual dimension of experience.

She works in oil through successive layers, beginning with a grisaille that establishes the tonal structure and advancing through glazes and layers of colour to build depth, tension, and luminosity. Her visual language is in dialogue with the tradition of Spanish Baroque chiaroscuro, approached through a contemporary sensibility.

Although she works across portraiture, landscape, still life, and allegory, what unifies her practice is not genre, but a shared search: to turn painting into a threshold where the ordinary acquires intensity and meaning.

Background

Education
BA in Art History, UNED, Spain(in progress)
Continued training in drawing and traditional oil painting techniques, Galway, Ireland(2004–2008)

Exhibitions
2018 — Works by Noelia Vaquero
“Pintor Llorens” Exhibition Hall, Casa Municipal de Cultura, Dénia, Alicante, Spain

2008 — 8 New Artists Exhibition
Johnstons Hall, Kinvara, Galway, Ireland

Base
She lives and works in Extremadura, Spain.

Contact

For enquiries about artworks, commissions, or exhibition proposals, please write toart@noeliavaquero.com