ARTISTIC PROFILE
I began my training in painting in 1983 in Seu d’Urgell. In 2006, I returned to painting full-time at the Cercle de Belles Arts School in Lleida under Mr Pujol, and I have been painting ever since.

CAREER
Over twenty years of uninterrupted activity, with an average of three or four exhibitions a year.
Exhibition Hall of the Lleida Provincial Council (4 group exhibitions)
Exhibition Hall of the Lleida Chamber of Commerce (5 group exhibitions)
Espai – Lleida Public Library (5 group exhibitions)
Espai de Cultura of the Lleida Provincial Council (3 group exhibitions)
RES NON VERBA Gallery, Lleida
Exhibition Hall of the Institut d’Estudis Ilerdencs (4 group exhibitions)
Lleida Museum (2 group exhibitions, including SIXENA)
Lleida Fine Arts Circle Exhibition Hall (6 group exhibitions)
Ponent Art Gallery (2)
Ponent Art Gallery (10 group exhibitions)
Orfeo Gallery, Lleida, group exhibition
Canonge Gallery at the Seu Vella, Lleida (2 group exhibitions)
Castle of the Knights Templar, Lleida (2 group exhibitions)
Jaume I Association, Lleida, as a painter for Cultural Week
Exhibition space at La Fira Antic, Camps Elisis, Lleida (17 years)

AWARDS
Finalist for the 34th Prize of the Cercle de Belles Arts de Lleida.
Finalist for the 35th Prize of the Cercle de Belles Arts de Lleida.
Finalist for the 2020 Sant Jordi Prize from the Perelló Foundation in Bellpuig.
Works reproduced in artists' books.
Cover artwork for the Festivities Programme.
Painter of the Week in the Lleida newspaper LA MAÑANA, with 7 works published.

TECHNIQUE
Oil painting, polychrome and collage.

ARTISTIC PHILOSOPHY
Painting has become my way of expressing emotions, experiences and my perspective on the world.
The aim is to offer an art without limitations of technique or style, with me being my own harshest critic.

For more information about the artist Lourdes Montalà, visit at Galeria Espai Cavallers