With an ever-present interest in painting, Carles Amill studied at Escola d’Art Sant Jordi at the Universitat de Barcelona, and graduated in painting techniques. He soon combined his creative talent with teaching at Escola d’Arts i Oficis in Reus, where he taught classes on artistic procedures. In 1986, he moved to New York and lived there for twenty years, without ever fully abandoning his connections with Reus. When he returned to Catalonia, he settled in Barcelona and Vinyols, where he lived the final years of his life. His early work was focused on the field of body art, progressing on to paint on more traditional media characterized by earthy and black colours, as well as organic forms with occasional figurative references. He stated that in his paintings he tried to refer to and review the colours and lights of baroque painting within a twenty-first century perspective, and he was working on this with method and discipline during the last days of his life.
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