The figure of Velázquez stars at the start of the new cycle of conferences and pictorial exhibitions of the municipal delegation of Culture

The teacher of the Drawing and Painting Workshop, Rocío Garín, will give a lecture on the Spanish Baroque painter on Tuesday, November 26 at the Padre Manuel Cultural Center.

The Estepona City Council informs that next Tuesday, November 26, at 19.00 hours, a lecture on Velazquez will be given at the Padre Manuel Cultural Center by the teacher of the Drawing and Painting Workshop of the municipal delegation of Culture, Rocio Garin.

The talk, entitled ‘Unraveling Velázquez’, is open to audiences of all ages, with free admission until full capacity, and aims to promote interest in the visual arts. Among other aspects, Rocío Garín will give an approach to the technique of the Spanish Baroque painter.

In addition, the cultural center will host on the first floor, until the end of the year, a collection of Christmas cards and bookmarks related to this master of universal painting made by the students of Drawing and Painting.

Rocío Garín. Since she was very young, the Estepona artist Rocío Garín (1977) has enjoyed drawing and painting, an interest that led her to study at the School of Arts and Crafts in Algeciras and, later, at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Seville, where she graduated in 2001. She quickly began working as a restorer of some of the most significant monuments of Seville, as well as church facades in the capital of Seville.

Since her return to Estepona in 2002 she has been teaching drawing and painting, an activity that she combines with aspects of her artistic facet as a researcher, as an artist and as a teacher, and has developed different teaching methods.

In 2013 she published a ‘Manual of Drawing and Painting’ in which she collects the main techniques and tools to take into account in the first year of student training.