Paula Leiva Granger

PAULA LEIVA GRANGER (Santiago, Chile, 1961).
“Roser,” 2026.
Oil and India ink on cotton canvas prepared on the reverse, mounted on a wooden stretcher frame.
Signed in the lower right corner.
Measurements: 55 x 33 cm.

Nature and its seasonal transformations are one of the main themes in Paula Leiva Granger’s paintings, whose artistic language reveals a marked influence from Japanese aesthetics. In this work, the artist depicts a detail of an old rosebush in Vallvidrera, Barcelona, capturing the different stages of its blooming. The delicate shades of pink and cream are hallmarks of the composition, contrasting with the deep greens of the foliage. The meticulousness of the drawing and the arrangement of the branches bring balance to the composition. The cotton background, whose texture remains visible, reinforces the formal restraint of an image that invites reflection on the passage of time and nature’s cycles of renewal.

Paula Leiva Granger studied painting at the Escola Massana and La Llotja in Barcelona, winning the Escola Massana’s Extraordinary Graduation Prize in 1984. A painter, illustrator, and teacher, she has participated in exhibitions in Spain, Chile, Germany, and the United States, and her work has been sold through Christie’s. In 2001, she was named Artist of the Year at the 14th Premi Solidaritat 2000 Drets Humans awarded by the Parliament of Catalonia. Between 2021 and 2023, she contributed as a watercolorist to *The Plant Review*, a publication of the Royal Horticultural Society in London. She is the author of the book *Practical Manual of Drawing and Watercolor* (Editorial Océano, 2007), which was also published in China.