Fatima Pantoja (Yecla, Murcia, Spain,1983) Spanish painter, sculptor and illustrator. She started taking lessons at the age of nine. Moved to Valencia (Spain) in 2002 where she started a Fine Arts Master Degree in one of the most prestigious universities, ?San Carlos? U.P.V. Graduated with honors in drawing, modelling and painting, specialising in portraits in the year 2007.
She obtained her first painting award a the age of seventeen. Her work and the perception of nature have been always influenced by the Mediterranean art masters like Joaquín Sorolla, Picasso, Pinazo, Mir,Camarasa, but not only the Spanish talent made its mark on her way of working, also Monet, Manet, Degas, Lautrec, Rodín helped to develop her way of understanding the reality.
Currently she lives in the UK, taking inspiration from the large English artistic heritage and learning from the paintings that hang in the Museums of London. It is here where her work undergoes a change to a soft Fauvism with expressionist brushstrokes, perhaps to compensate for the inclement weather of England.