Jesús Morilla is a Spanish artist and creative born in Seville in 1975, although he spent his life in Barcelona, where he earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Barcelona. Immediately after finishing his studies, Morilla moved to Madrid, then to Seville, and back to Madrid, where he currently lives and works.
After his early years devoted entirely to artistic creation, with solo exhibitions and various accolades, his creative exploration led him to embark on an intense professional career as an advertising Creative Director and Art Director, which lasted 18 years at top agencies in Spain and Germany, where he also lived for a time.
This period of professional creative activity in a field outside the visual arts scene leads him to adopt a different perspective on painting. The knowledge gained about the economic scene, business, and consumer societies gradually shapes, from the shadows, a new approach to art. More free and eclectic. More sensory.
Today, Morilla’s work remains a continuous exploration of the expressive capabilities of visual communication. As Creative Director of his own design studio, where brand strategies and concepts are developed. As in painting, where one seeks expressions that obey no command other than emotion.