About me
Meet the artist
Story and vision
My motivation
I strongly believe that our story is the only thing that is not transferable. Even if sometimes we wish we had been given a different script or feel that we are secondary characters. We are all protagonists in a story that only we can continue to tell.
I share my story through my work, but leaning on universality. I want viewers of my work to resonate with it and that, in some way, they will feel accompanied in this wide and difficult world. For this reason, I also make my paintings friendly to the eye. I wish to be an outstretched hand to other walkers who are on a pilgrimage through life as I am. I invite them and you to explore my work and, for a moment, to be part of the same story.
A brief story
Daniela Tovar is a Peruvian-Spanish artist and illustrator, currently based in Valencia. Her work, mostly in watercolour, seeks not only to capture the beauty that surrounds us, but, above all, strives to make the intangible visible through both universal and very personal symbolism.
The spark of art appeared very early in her life, although not exclusively in painting or drawing. From an early age she was always attracted to stories and all the different ways of telling them: the written word, theatre, music, dance… Initially, she explored interior design, children's
illustration and the performing arts. All this knowledge connects and enriches her artistic proposal.
Painting prevailed, however, and in the style of the Renaissance apprentices, she studied drawing and painting techniques with the Peruvian realist painter Eduardo Deza from 2016 to 2020. In her intense studies, she learned various techniques, including watercolour. In contrast to Eduardo’s
emphasis on oil painting, Daniela felt that the more ethereal and subtle nature of watercolours connected better with the themes she sought to reflect.
This led her to seek to enrich her knowledge by taking intensive workshops with carefully chosen masters of watercolour in Lima, Madrid, Seville, Salamanca and Rome. Each lesson represented new ways of applying the technique and, with it, a world of possibilities that she incorporated into her work.
Although she identifies herself mostly as a painter, her love of storytelling led her to work as an illustrator for the Peruvian publishing house Colmillo Blanco. In addition, she has also worked for
independent authors on different projects.
She currently alternates between painter and illustrator, where she prioritizes a "human" approach, honoring the unpredictability and depth of our nature.