Íkala, Revista de Lenguaje y Cultura

Featured artist: Gertrude Martin Laprade

The concepts of "habitability" and "the alive" have a constant presence on her paintings.

Cover image: Entrada al solar, oil on canvas, 90 x 45 cm, 2020.

Artist: Marcela Ramírez Aza

Her abstract paintings use form and color to express both the artist's internal subjectivity
and external reality. Cover image: Gracia 12 (mixed media, 30 x 15 cm, 2013)

Artist: María Morán

Her paintings are influenced by the landscapes of her childhood at the foot of the Galeras
volcano. Cover image: Sábila lejos del cerro (oil on canvas, 1.26 x 1.26 m, 1990)

Artist: Victoria Ortiz

Her engraving work features recurrent themes: women, birds, and the tropics.
Cover image: Exótico (woodcut, 2020)

Artist: Laura Osorio

Her recent work focuses on the interaction between light and darkness on the canvas.
Cover image: Interacción, (oil on canvas, 2015)

Artist: Yina Lopera

Lopera captures in her paintings what the Japanese call komorebi: sunlight filtering through
tree leaves. Cover image: Refugio (oil on canvas, 60 x 90 cm)

Artist: Kindi Llatju

His works offers a glimpse of his natal Manoy, in the Amazon rainforest, by combining painting, drawing, and fiber arts, and using unconventional materials like horsehair and copper threads.

Artist: Óscar López Ospina

Awarded painter and sculptor. Cover image: Abstracción pura 1382 (El vuelo del color)
(oil on cardboard, 50 x 25 cm, 2020)

Artist: Pascual Ruiz

Accomplished master of painting, drawing, engraving, and sculpture.
Cover image: Del mariposeo a la introspección (oil on canvas, 120 x 80 cm, 2009)

Artist: Miguel Arosemena

A leading representative of the contemporary figuration movement through painting
and engraving. Cover image: Espíritu anarquista (oil on canvas, 40 x 35 cm, 2018)

Artist: Tomás Gallego

Through his artworks, he conveys a sense of movement that is an ongoing experimentation.
Cover image: Floración (acrylic on canvas, 45 x 25 cm, 2018)