Terreno fértil Original Painting by Nuria Oliva

Terreno fértil — fertile ground — extends Nuria Oliva's practice of memory and home toward growth and origin. The title's sense of things taking root fits a body of work built on family and domestic ritual, from Recolectar y cocinar con la Abuela to the Piezas de lo que somos series, where the everyday is treated as soil worth tending.

The work is oil and acrylic on raw cotton canvas at 85 by 130 cm, a wide horizontal field. Leaving the cotton raw lets the weave breathe through thinner passages, and the elongated format spreads the composition sideways, so the eye travels across it like ground rather than settling on a single point.

Oil and acrylic on raw cotton canvas · 2025 · 85 × 130 cm (33.46 × 51.18 in) · Unique · Mounted on a professional wooden frame · Certificate of authenticity included.