José Luis Fariñas is a painter, draughtsman, poet, and contemporary Cuban narrator who intricately captures dreamlike scenes. The imaginative oeuvre of Fariñas is informed by the artist’s ongoing research of the Bible and the Book of Genesis, the aesthetic crossroads of Medieval mysticism and Renaissance humanism.
The iconography expresses the ambiguous world of Fariñas' soul. Each psychic landscape in his work is a documentation of Fariñas’ introspective mind, a mind striving to reach beyond personal values, traumas, and hopes to ever further realms of possibility. Fariñas’ masterful watercolor technique, executed with an extra-thin brush, gives the viewer a rare opportunity to see contemporary draftsmanship at its strongest. The precise detail of his poetic freehand lines exposes the unbounded inner worlds of the artist’s imagination.