... It seems to me that, in his work as a "portraitist", he has commissioned blue, in small contrasts or transparencies of yellows or reds or the same color in other tones, to express the expression of his portraits and the very personality of those portrayed , because they are different blue; and that, even when it gets very dark, bordering on violet or steely blue, I believe that this blue is the one that radiates the light inside and makes the background of the painting.

The drawing is a drawing at the service of the portrait and it does not intend to distort reality at all, but to offer it as the artist sees it, and there is no deceit for the eye, which is well to notice, because I have written "expressionism ”Above, and I don't want the word to evoke that of his way of painting. In his painting there is neither cover-up nor rhetoric nor sumptuousness, nor pastosities that are so popular today, it is not known if it is to be able to speak of the famous textures, and the result is a painting of a simple gentleness, you see someone looking, but He does not transmit any psychological message to us, nor does he look at us with any pretense. I mean, it's there. And I think that it is because of this simplicity and, at the same time, because of the presence with which the figure imposes itself on its making that the painting can be there and I like it ...

José Jiménez Lozano, 2002 Cervantes Award

Alcazarén (Valladolid) November 2015