Cristina Tomàs Ortolà — somiAr
The Santa Pola Sea Museum hosts an engaging program that blends sculpture and contemporary installations, exploring how art interacts with space. The Valencia Community Museums Consortium presents a series of studies that experiment with different technical approaches to reveal how an artistic object relates to its surroundings. This initiative sits within the broader context of contemporary Valencian art, a collection founded in 2017 to support the regional art sector, build cultural heritage, and promote contemporary languages across the Valencian Community. [Citation: Valencia Community Museums Consortium]
The exhibition gathers works by Edu Comelles, Enric Mestre, Fermín Jiménez Landa, Inma Femenía, Lucía Peiró, Patricia Gómez & María Jesús González, Rosana Antolí and Sebastià Miralles. This sample will be followed by another installment planned by the Consortium for next summer, continuing a cycle of regional artistic dialogue and discovery. [Citation: Valencia Community Museums Consortium]
Cristina Thomas Ortolà, “somiar”
The Ovidi Montlor Center is located at c / Vistabella 8, Alcohol, and hosts an exhibition running until December 20. Here, intimate, small-format works invite viewers to notice subtle textures and quiet gestures that suggest a larger, almost abstract world. The artist embraces blues tones and a light, clean color palette to guide attention toward harmonious landscapes. A simple gaze becomes a doorway to nature, offering moments of reflection within a fleeting, dreamlike frame. [Citation: Ovidi Montlor Center]
Cristina Tomàs Ortolà (Pedreguer, 1969) has cherished drawing and painting since childhood. She pursued painting with instruction from the painter Joan Vidal in Pedreguer, cultivating a self-directed path before formal study shaped her artistic voice. Her work emphasizes clarity, restraint, and a careful balance between line and space to reveal quiet, atmospheric scenes. [Citation: Ovidi Montlor Center]
Olga Navarro Pomares, “The Ballad of Fire and Life”
The Elche venue, located at Plaza de Sant Joan 1, opens a new display with an evening reception on Saturday at 20:00, continuing through January 12. Olga Navarro Pomares, a long-time Bigastro artist, studied at the Faculty of Fine Arts and the Faculty of San Carlos in Valencia. The collection comprises 22 works that capture moments from the surrounding space, translating scenes into a condensed visual language. Each piece uses simplified lines and a restrained color palette to highlight subtle sensations and experiences that draw attention to the overlooked details of daily life. The works build on recent photographic studies, refined to emphasize mood over detail, inviting viewers to pause and consider the beauty found in ordinary things. [Citation: Olga Navarro Pomares Exhibition]
Navarro Pomares blends a documentary sensibility with a painterly touch, inviting a quiet, reflective engagement with space and memory. The artist’s approach to composition and color invites spectators to notice the way light interacts with surfaces, transforming familiar scenes into evocative portraits of place. The exhibition showcases the artist’s ongoing curiosity about how small moments become meaningful through careful observation. [Citation: Olga Navarro Pomares Exhibition]