ABOUT

Evelin Toledano is a Swedish-born, Spanish-raised artist, living and working from Barcelona. Her distinctive style combines a mastery of colour with beautiful, pared-back simplicity, utilising negative space to create form from absence. Her art represents ordinary bodies, transforming skin-tones, curves and shapes into abstractions that give the female figure an untainted arena to display her strength and beauty.

She began her career as a graphic designer and later delved into specializing in illustration, eventually transitioning into the realm of painting. Her creative work has taken her across the globe, with projects in cities such as Barcelona, London, Lanzarote, and Sydney. Since relocating to Barcelona, art has become her central focus, and she has been a part of several exhibitions and solo exhibitions.

She attributes the roots of her art to her parents. Her mother was a model and awarded beauty queen, and her father an amateur painter of colourful, abstract paintings. One side sparked her obsession with colour, whilst the other fuelled a fascination with the female figure. But it also opened her eyes to the consequences of beauty – the societal pressures, the envy and judgment. Through her work she challenges this universal beauty standard, giving space for the realities of the female body to take centre stage, and allowing women to see themselves, swapping learned shame for pride and ownership.

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