Born in Orio, Spain (b. 1973) a town in the Basque Country in northern Spain, in the smallest of provinces, Gipuzkoa, near the Bay of Biscay. It is known for its fishing heritage and picturesque coastal landscape.

Iñigo grew up among the fisherfolk, the ocean, the sweeping cliffs and then left to study at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Bilbao between 1993 and 1998. His studies included participation in various workshops, notably the Masters of Figurative Painting workshop with Antonio López and Juan José Aquerreta at the School of Architecture in Pamplona in 2006. He later participated in the Textures workshop, led by Australian artist David Kelly, during the Australis exhibition at the Kubokutxa gallery in Donostia in 2010.

Iñigo’s ever present curiosity for the materiality of things has led him to incur into many artistic mediums with the ease of a fish through water. His large-scale Corten steel sinuous sculptures, as well as their miniature versions; his installations like sculptural assemblages; his realist and impasto paintings and the small architectural jewelry he creates exemplify the dexterity and ease with which he moves within his environment, his upbringing and how he relates to both to inform his narrative.

From his childhood experiences and relationships to the land and waters upon which he has grown all serve to produce memories, as raw material. Iñigo walks us through beautiful renderings of his memories with a continuity, like an unbroken line, an ebb and flow of movement and color that speaks of the innocence and childlike inquisitiveness that is his work.

His large airy studio is a space in which his dreams, visions and engineering collide and create a vernacular so very his own. Every bit of fishing rope, metallurgic piece or netting gives rise to imagery he renders in 3-D massive sculptures or applied with the thickness of paint that 2-D becomes 3-D in its intertwining impasto.

The playfulness in his brushstroke and bend of metal is pronounced and inspires one to walk away with a sensation of having been smiling all the while experiencing his work and his life.