Art Exhibition by Conchita Sanchez Lorente in Mazarrón

The Senior Community Center of Puerto de Mazarrón is hosting a new exhibition of paintings by Conchita Sanchez Lorente, Mazarron appreciated artist, showing us her most recent work. The exhibition includes 53 paintings made with the most diverse techniques such as wax, watercolors, acrylics, pencil, etc.. The theme is also varied, rotating around the central motivation of memories and fantasy. Memories rooted in the village environment, the old ways. Works that fill the center of color and joy, of evocation and poetry.

The mayor of Mazarrón, Ginés Campillo, came to congratulate Sanchez Lorente this new exhibition accompanied by the Councillor for Social Policy, Health, Gender and Historical Heritage, Maria Martinez, and Councilman Civil Protection and Public Safety, Miguel Maria Garcia. The artist and poet, told the Mayor the stories hidden behind each painting and the memories it evoked some of them.

Conchita Sanchez Lorente explained that "I dedicate this exhibition to my beloved town, Puerto de Mazarrón, whom I adore, admire and respect. To the people ... What we should never do is forget their customs, festivals as before, simple, poor, very funny and why not?, Traditions that made us extremely happy ... A people without all of this is nothing is a culture that we must preserve. "

The exhibition brings us closer to the memory of Conchita, which are also those of his countrymen. We can go places and landscapes of the town at other times as the primitive church, parts of the Alamillo, El Gachero, El Castellar ... genre scenes also found with memories of summers past and present maritime greasy pole as the Fiestas de la Virgen, "Villajarapa," "The chambilero" kiosks on beaches, bicycles or swimming.

And the memories connected with fantasy, with works in which characters are as well known as Don Quixote, Alicia, Betty Boop or a beautiful siren who is said to live on our coast Mazarron. Quite a trip suggestive, the result of intense creative work, the artist has developed over the winter and spring that just happened. The results can now be enjoyed by all those who want to experience this summer at the Home for the Elderly in The Port, on  the Main Street every day during opening hours of the center.