About the Artist
Artist Bio
Born in Caracas, Venezuela, Antonio Fernandez is a painter based in Edinburgh, Scotland. His multicultural upbringing — spanning Venezuela, Jamaica, and several European countries — shapes a practice that sits at the intersection of sacred imagery and contemporary abstraction.
After completing art school he studied theology for a year at the Independent Baptist Bible College in Telford, England. A transformative module in Hermeneutics deeply influenced his approach to interpreting symbols and texts.
As a second-year student he curated an exhibition in Birmingham that was featured in the Birmingham Mail, Metro, and Birmingham Post (2013). One of his works was also selected among only 18 pieces for the Light Cycle festival at Birmingham City University and displayed across the city. He has since exhibited at the Music Museum in Edinburgh and has been featured in a prominent Edinburgh magazine.
Upcoming exhibitions include Volterra Art Week 2026 in Italy, where three large-scale paintings will be shown as part of the group exhibition.
Artist Statement
My work explores the intersection of art and faith. Through geometry and radiant light, I seek to create paintings that honor reverence while speaking to a contemporary audience.
My paintings explore the tension between two symbolic grammars: the modern contextual use of symbols as signs to be remixed and the believer’s grammar, where symbols carry fixed meaning inseparable from their scriptural purpose.
I extract and experiment with motifs from sacred art, transforming them into non-narrative, numinous abstract cosmologies utilizing bold color and geometrical shapes.
My paintings are a form of devotion, opening a meditative space that embraces both a secular and spiritual audience in the experience of the spiritual atmosphere of the numinous. They transcend the ordinary by visualizing Western Christian doctrine through a universal visual language that is abstract, symbolic, and contemporary.