MANOLA ESTEBAN MARTÍ. ( Native of Valencia , Spain . Born in 1949 )

She studied at the “Escuela de Artes Aplicadas y Oficios Artisticos de Valencia. (School of Applied Arts and Artistic Trade of Valencia )

Other courses :

- Course in Ceramics Centro Homalis of Valencia .

- Course in Painting Centro Homalis of Valencia .

- Course in Drawing Escuela de Artesanos ( Artisan School ) of Valencia .

- Lecture course in Psychology Instituto Social de la Mujer (Women's Social    Institute)

- Intensive course: “Comunicación Empresa-Institución “ ( Comunication    Enterprise-Institution ) Politechnic University of Valencia- University Complutense    of Madrid – 1991.

- Course “Tecnología y Sociedad “ ( Technology and Society ) Polytechnic University    of Valencia 1992-93.

- Course “ Gestión Marketing y Patrocinio de Museos y Centros Culturales ”    (Marketing Management and Patronage of Museums and Cultural centers).    Polytechnic University of Valencia 1997.

- Seminary “ Federico Garcia Moliner “ Polytechnic University of Valencia 1998.

   Since her first exhibition in 1978, she has given more than a hundred exhibitions and she has enjoyed excellent press reviews.

   Her first exhibition of “Baskets with Flowers”, over 25 years ago, caused enormous expectation due to its novel theme and it proved to be a great success.

   Since then she has exhibited every year in Art Galleries in Madrid , Valencia and Bilbao , among other cities, expanding her themes with dunes, beaches and wheat fields...but always with flowers as the principal motif.

   Manola Esteban is an artist with formation as she shows us in her paintings, and by trade; because nowhere does she spend more time than in her studio, surrounded by baskets and wheat ... or painting on the beach day after day, stealing that intense light away from the sea of her homeland, and from its dunes. ( Martin Blahuel ) art critic and writer.

   Her painting can be found in numerous private collections in Madrid, Barcelona, Bilbao, Santander, Málaga, Alicante, Valencia, Sevilla, ... as well as in Switzerland, Germany and in the Prestige Collection in New Jersey (USA) among others.

•  Selected by the City Council of Valencia as member of the Examining Jury for the Special Section of Fallas 2001.

•  Member of the Governing Board of the “ Circulo de Bellas Artes de Valencia” in 2001-2002.