Antonio Sánchez-Santiago is a painter of the Ampurdan region, a part of Spain where light becomes diffuse in the mountains but exploses at the sea side.
For that reason it seems only normal that his paintings are just light and colour.
But he adds to these elements his individual style and a rhythmic composition of the contents.
Antonio Sánchez-Santiago's artistic work proves that sometimes a pencil can create more poetry than a pen, and that one colour may contain more nuances than the whole palette of life.
To see his creations is restful for a strained soul: just like contemplating the sea from a small beach or facing the strong energy of a walk in the mountains.
He is a painter with a developed talent as a drawer, but his creations surpass the limits of reality and show us the mystique of forms and colours. This combination is so successful in his paintings that it represents an artistic tendency of its own - not influenced by other important Catalan painters. Sánchez-Santiago has achieved his reputation by his own merits.
Jaume Abrisqueta
GENERAL CONSUL
Sánchez-Santiago, the Spanish painter with residence in Switzerland, is a surprising revelation when we regard his recent series Footsteps in the sand and Reed landscapes. It seems that he is searching his own way like some of the Japanese painters of the young generation do.
His creativity and imagination are impressing. In an atmosphere of surrelism combined with elements of exententialism Sánchez-Santiago offers in Figueras a subtle, mysterious and silent search which at the same time shows by generously spreaded quantities of one colour the limits of surface of some large size pictures. The mental effort of this artist is absolutely exceptional.
Narcís Pijoan
ART CRITIC
