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PURE — Paint as Pure Feeling

Pure abstraction. Paint as language.

The collection

Strip away the subject and what remains is feeling. PURE is Diego Palencia's collection of total abstraction — paintings with no figure, no landscape, no icon to hold onto. Only color, motion, and emotion, speaking directly. Here, paint becomes a language of its own, and the canvas asks nothing of you except that you feel it.

This is the most distilled expression of Diego's practice. Without a subject to anchor them, these works lean fully into instinct: gesture, rhythm, the push and pull of vibrant color across the surface. Acrylic is layered, dragged, and released in movements that record the energy of their own making. The result is abstract art that pulses — alive with the same urban energy and organic force that runs through all of his work, now set loose and unfiltered.

There is freedom in abstraction, and PURE makes that freedom the point. Each painting becomes a space for the viewer to project, to feel, to interpret. One collector reads serenity where another reads storm — and both are right. This is contemporary art from Guatemala that trusts emotion over explanation, and rewards the kind of looking that has no destination.

Every piece is an original, one-of-a-kind work, signed by the artist and delivered with a certificate of authenticity. Each is created by hand in his Guatemala City studio, and none can be repeated — what you acquire is the single, irreplaceable record of that moment of creation.

For collectors who respond to pure form and color, PURE offers work that breathes with a room and shifts with the light. These paintings hold up to daily living, revealing new movement the longer you sit with them. Explore the available originals, and reach out to collect a piece or commission an abstract work scaled to your space. Each painting ships worldwide, fully insured. PURE is an invitation to feel first — and to let the paint say the rest.

Works in PURE

  1. Blue Bloom, original abstract acrylic painting by Diego Palencia with concentric strokes in cobalt, teal, ivory and indigo.

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    Blue Bloom

    2022 · 57 × 60 cm · Acrylic on Canvas

    Concentric brushstrokes radiating outward like an underwater bloom.

    Available$850
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  2. Fragments, original abstract acrylic painting by Diego Palencia of a face dissolving into turquoise, orange, white and red planes.

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    Fragments

    2021 · 70 × 57 cm · Acrylic on Canvas

    An abstracted face dissolving into its own pieces.

    Available$1,100
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  3. Neon Leaves, original acrylic painting by Diego Palencia of tropical foliage in coral, lime and electric blue outlines.

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    Neon Leaves

    2020 · 51 × 40 cm · Acrylic on Canvas

    Tropical foliage rendered in coral, lime, and electric blue outlines.

    Available$750
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  4. Supernova, original mixed media abstract by Diego Palencia, coral, electric green, white and black detonating from a central point.

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    Supernova

    2021 · 51 × 40 cm · Mixed Media

    An explosion across the canvas — coral, electric green, white, and black detonating from a central point.

    Available$800
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  5. Green Cascade, original abstract acrylic by Diego Palencia, green and yellow paint thrown and dripped across a white field.

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    Green Cascade

    2022 · 83 × 70 cm · Acrylic on Canvas

    Pure gesture.

    Available$1,200
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  6. Static Bloom, original mixed media abstract by Diego Palencia, a panoramic sweep of magenta, electric yellow and dripping black.

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    Static Bloom

    2021 · 90 × 38 cm · Mixed Media

    A panoramic sweep of magenta, electric yellow, and dripping black.

    Available$1,100
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  7. Primary Storm, original abstract acrylic by Diego Palencia, cobalt, cadmium yellow and crimson torn across the canvas in textured slabs.

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    Primary Storm

    2020 · 88 × 45 cm · Acrylic on Canvas

    Cobalt, cadmium yellow, and crimson torn across the canvas in textured slabs.

    Available$1,400
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Looking for something specific, or a piece made for your space? Diego accepts select commissions.