López Herrera style is realism (perhaps even magical realism), sometimes achieving surrealism. He states that his painting is "an enormous scenario where the great theatre of the world is performed, with veils and artifices, characters and elements which, like the strings of a marionette, sustain them in the scenes".
The artist creates his paintings around platforms of invented but real characters, seeking to spread a light sense of humour over the canvas, using the technique as amusement. Shaping the backgrounds with an obvious and significant existentialism and then, through enhancement elements, provoking melancholic smiles…always trying to find a profound sense of aesthetics.
Since 1973 López Herrera has accomplished various collective and individual expositions throughout Europe and the Americas and has participated in several international art fairs, having received numerous awards such as the 1st prize in the National Medina Contest (1973), the 1st prize in the XV Jerez Painting Exposition , the 1st prize in the National Plastic Art Exposition of Valdepenas (1974), the 1st prize in the DG Fine Arts - Spring Exposition of Seville, the 1st prize in the III National Toledo Contest (1976), the Queen Sofia Special Prize - Autumn Exposition of Madrid (1983), and the 1st prize in the National Painting Contest of the City of Tudela.
López Herrera has, since 1972, made several international exhibitions including:
Spain - Portugal - France - Holland - China - Venezuela - Italy - England - Belgium - USA
INDIVIDUAL eXHIBITIONS:
2014: Echeverria Art Gallery, St. Sebastian, Spain
2014: 'ART UP' Art Fair, Lille, France
2014: Kreisler Gallery, Madrid, Spain
GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2015: LAPADA Art & Antiques Fair, Berkeley Square, London, Lucy B Campbell Fine Art
2015: Art Antiques London, Kensington Gardens, London, Lucy B Campbell Fine Art
2015: The Decorative Fair, Lucy B Campbell Gallery, Battersea, London
2014: Olympia Art & Antiques Fair, London, Lucy B Campbell Fine Art
2015: The Decorative Fair, Lucy B Campbell Gallery, Battersea, London
2015: ART FAIR MADRID, Aurora Vigil Fine Art, Gijon, Spain
2015: Drawing Exhibition, Haurie Art gallery, Seville, Spain
2014: LAPADA, Berkeley Square, Lucy B Campbell Fine Art, London
2014: Summer Exhibition, Lucy B Campbell Fine Art, Glebe Place, London
2014: IAFAF, West Palm Beach, USA, Lucy B Campbell Fine Art.
2013: Olympia International Fine Art & Antiques Fair, Lucy B Campbell Fine Art, London
2013: LAPADA, Berkeley Square, Lucy B Campbell Fine Art, London
2012: LAPADA, Berkeley Square, Lucy B Campbell Fine Art, London
2012: Art & Antiques Fair, Kensington Gardens, Lucy B Campbell Fine Art, London
2011: The Decorative Fair, Battersea, Lucy B Campbell Fine Art, London
2011: Art & Antiques Fair, Kensington Gardens, Lucy B Campbell Fine Art, London
COMPETITIONS
López Herrera has achieved distinction in the competitions taken part in, including:
- D.G. Bellas Artes Prize. Spring Exhibition, Seville.
- Honour Medal, BMW Painting Prize.
- Reina Sofia special prize. Autumn Fair, Madrid
- 1st Prize National Painting Contest, Tudela
- Prize Jacoba, Rome
- 1st Prize Plastic Arts Exhibition, Valdepeñas
- 1st Prize Painting Army
López Herrera's work has been exhibited in a number of museums including:
- Valdepeñas Art Museum, Cuidad Real. Spain
- Contemporary Art Museum. Osaka, Japan
- Ateneo of Seville Museum, Spain
- Fine Arts Provincial Museum of Oviedo, (Velarde Palace), Spain
- Art Funds of the Palmaos Tows Council, Spain
- "CAU DE LA COSTA BRAVA" Municipal Museum, Spain
- Sport Royal Federation of Lleida, Spain
- Cultural Foundation of the Savings Bank of León, Spain
- Town Hall of Medicina del Campo, Spain
- Archaeological Museum of Alcala de Henares, Spain
- Ponce Museum, San Juan de Puerto Rico
- Art Funds of the Valladolid Town Council, Spain
- Nativity Scene Art Museum. Valladolid, Spain
- Art Museum of Torrelaguna, Spain
- Puertollano Municipal Museum of Art Cuidad Real, Spain
- Seville Country Council Museum, Spain
- Pontevedra Country Council Museum, Spain
- Savings Bank and Friendly Society of Madrid Cultural Foundation, Spain
