The daily movement of the Ensanche Market in Pamplona has changed this Monday with the visit of Antonio Lopez who, as is tradition, has come to buy the products he will use in the XI Painting Workshop Masters of the figuration that he will be teaching at the Museum until Friday.

Accompanied by fellow painter Juan José Aquerreta, the artist toured different stalls to acquire seasonal fruits and vegetables, canning jars, eggs, flowers and even ham bones that will be used for the still lifes that the students will paint in the workshop. "We look for colors, shapes and combinations, elements that contrast and complement each other. You can't just place anything," explained López next to one of the stalls.

He also noted that he feels "a great joy to return to the workshop, in which there are some repeaters". This eleventh edition involves 25 students who, first thing in the morning, were able to meet the artist and begin to paint a model who posed for them. "They are people who are advanced in painting, from different backgrounds and ages. There are people who are studying Fine Arts and also people who want to take it up again over the years, in the company of other painters. Every year they are different people and so am I."

In this sense, he emphasizes that many are an example of "generosity and imagination" and that he finds "extraordinary surprises": "Meeting people with a natural capacity for painting is a marvel".

The workshop explores the figurative tradition through the genres of still life, the human figure with life models and landscape. López and Aquerreta accompany the participants in the creative process, sharing their experience and advice.

About the world of Fine Arts, Lopez, considered one of the main exponents of Spanish realism, stresses that "it is very difficult and exciting, above all, because of the possible ways of making art, knowing what is yours, the search for that identity".

Thus, the workshop is "an opportunity to see which path you have to follow. We all have a lot of doubts and it is a relief". Until Friday they will work in the Museum's workshops and, at the end of the workshop, the artist will choose a maximum of two of the students' works, which will be incorporated into the Collection.