Consequences of love, 2018
Oil on canvas
31,88 X 39,37 inches
Santa Pola

Consequences of love revisit one of Sotoko´s previous paintings, The Aliens. With two figures embracing each other intimately, he explores how love has consequences that can last a lifetime. The depiction of a rose and maple leaf on each bottom corner play on the positive outcomes love has. Furthermore, the painting conveys how decisions can lead to results full of light through and allusion of stained glass, cherub motifs, and overall composition. Shipping Details Carefully rolled up in a hard plastic tube . About the Artist Miguel Angel Castrillo Fernandez is an artist based in Santa Pola, Spain creating oil paintings focusing on the nude human figure.

Under the stage name Sotoko, the human figure is the prominent focus and theme throughout Castrillo´s art practice. For Castrillo, nude art provides him a venue to illustrate the most basic and primitive instincts of humans. Furthermore, his oil paintings capture primal characteristics that still accompany our society even as we evolve.

More specifically, his practice finds inspiration from the Renaissance and the revival of Classical forms and styles. He embraces a naturalistic realism, yet illusionist painting techniques used in Renaissance artworks. Additionally, he is fond of Italian painter Sandro Botticelli´s work and portrayal of the nude. However contemporary artists such as Scottish painter Peter Howson inform his practice as well.

Currently, Castrillo´s work displays permanently at the San Joaquín y Santa Ana Museum in Valladolid, Spain. His works have exhibited in both solo and group exhibitions in galleries and museums in London, Portugal, and Spain. Most notably, Sotoko showed twice in the Salón Erótico in Barcelona in the 2017 and 2019.

Castrillo´s strives to continue creating large erotic paintings while incorporating new ideas. more »