Alejandra Atarés (Zaragoza, 1987) is an artist whose painting practice explores color as a territory of invention, desire, and exuberance. Trained in Fine Arts in Barcelona, England, and Boston, she develops her work in a space where landscape ceases to be a place observed and becomes a place imagined. Rather than depicting a specific form of nature, her often large-scale paintings construct fictional geographies, imagined tropics that invite the viewer to enter a country that exists only on the canvas. Her process begins with images circulating in contemporary visual culture. Fragments gathered from social media, search engines, and visual archives are first assembled into a digital collage that serves as an initial map for the work. Yet this preliminary scheme is not a destination, but a starting point. In the transition to painting, Atarés reinterprets, challenges, and engages with the image, turning the act of painting into a space of decision and transformation, where the planned and the intuitive are in constant tension. Color occupies a central place in her practice. Palm trees, plants, flowers, and tropical fruits unfold across vibrant compositions in which echoes of modernist tradition—such as the visionary naivety of Henri Rousseau and the chromatic rhythm of Sonia Delaunay and Beatriz Milhazes—coexist with references to pop culture, textile patterns, cinema, and modernist ornamentation. Within this interplay, painting becomes a surface of accumulation and celebration, where the decorative takes on a sensory and affective dimension. Her work, which has been exhibited in galleries and art fairs across Spain, Europe, and the United States, is progressively moving toward abstraction. Brushwork and color have become increasingly free and intuitive, as the natural result of an ongoing artistic investigation. Through this evolution, Atarés reflects on painting’s ability to generate worlds of its own, where light, matter, and color come together as a form of joy and a resistance of the gaze.