Miguel Ángel Pascual Díaz
Colour as a vital language
Born in Asturias in 1966, Miguel Ángel Pascual Díaz is an artist who has managed to translate the intensity of nature and the energy of life into his own vibrant and emotionally contagious pictorial language. Throughout his life, he has moved between his native land and the island of Lanzarote, where he has lived permanently for more than 15 years. It is precisely on this volcanic island that his work has reached a remarkable aesthetic maturity, deeply influenced by the power of the landscape, the Atlantic light and the chromatic contrasts of the Lanzarote environment.
Miguel Ángel Pascual Díaz’s work is defined by a deep emotional connection with colour and movement. His style develops in the realm of lyrical and expressive abstraction, where forms do not seek to represent reality in a figurative way, but rather to suggest it through energy, rhythm and chromatic intensity. Each of his paintings seems to emerge from a vital impulse, almost as if the act of painting were a natural extension of the body and emotion.
His visual language is dominated by radial explosions, dynamic lines and expansive compositions, elements that evoke both nature and the cosmos. The paint flows from a centre or axis, radiating outwards, as if attempting to capture the exact moment of an explosion or the dispersion of energy in space. This idea is reinforced in works where long, multicoloured strokes suggest both speed and expansion, giving the sensation of a moment frozen in time, charged with internal movement.
The use of colour in his works is not merely decorative, but deeply expressive. Miguel Ángel employs a vibrant and saturated palette, where pure colours intertwine fearlessly, creating tensions and harmonies that awaken the viewer. Red, electric blue, neon yellow, fuchsia and acid green coexist in a visceral way, sometimes clashing, sometimes complementary, but always alive. Colour thus becomes the true protagonist of his artistic discourse, charged with emotional, sensory and almost spiritual force.
In some of her works, floral motifs appear, treated not from a realistic perspective but as symbols of life and energy. These flowers seem to float above abstract backgrounds, elevated above fields of lines that could resemble stems, wind or multicoloured rain. This approach adds a poetic component to her work, where the vegetal and the vital merge with the abstract.
The influence of Lanzarote’s landscape is clear: not literally, but as emotional and symbolic inspiration. The volcanic character, the contrast between black earth and bright sky, the intensity of natural colours, and the island’s telluric energy are present in the pulse of his paintings. It is a painting that does not represent Lanzarote, but breathes it deeply.
Overall, Miguel Ángel Pascual Díaz’s style is a manifestation of vitality, colour, gestural freedom and a deep connection with nature. His work invites us not to look, but to feel: to let ourselves be carried away by the rhythm of the brushstrokes, the intensity of the colour and the emotional force of a painting that is born from the earth, the body and life itself.
