PABLO ROMERO Pablo Romero is a native New Mexican. He was born on Christmas day while his parents were visiting his grandmother in Bernalillo, New Mexico. Pablo currently resides in Albuquerque, New Mexico and has lived in other parts of the country including San Francisco California, Keywest Florida and South Padre Island Texas. After high school he enlisted in the military and spent a few memorable years as a radioman on the Coast Guard Cutter Diligence chasing drug smugglers and rescuing refugees in the waters near Haiti and Cuba. After the military, Pablo earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Albuquerque and completed a summer graduate program in Leadership Education at Harvard University. He relishes anything exotic and enjoys traveling to hot and tropical places like the Caribbean and Mexico. Over the years Pablo has worked in a variety of occupations from an education administrator to a real estate broker. His life has had many twists and turns however, he always finds his way back to his one true love. Art!
About My Art
My art is an extension of my inner emotions, personality, experience and soul. Often, I will go for months without picking up a brush. Nonetheless, I have found this time is not spent idle. My mind is constantly gathering snippets of information sights, sounds, smells, emotions that are filed away in the back of my mind and eventually build to a critical mass. These bits of information can be as simple as a perfect sunflower that I grew in my backyard last summer…the sound and smell of burning rubber, as I slam on my brakes to avoid an accident or the feelings of helplessness I experienced as I saw the sad look on my daughter’s face as she grieved the death of her pet mouse Lucy. I am fascinated by anything strange or different. My eyes are naturally drawn to anything with intense color or texture. Often, I will collect interesting objects, an old rusty license plate, a dry seedpod, a scrap of twisted metal, or a vintage photo and incorporate it into my work. It is hard to say exactly what will inspire or become part of a particular work of art. To a casual observer my work seems spontaneous. I work at a feverish pace because I have consciously or subconsciously worked out much of the detail in my minds eye beforehand. I will frequently start and finish a painting in a single sitting. For me the creation process causes an unbearable itch that only painting and sculpting can reach and soothe. I keep scratching (painting) until the itch goes away then, the cycle starts all over again.
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