‘My drawings are my space to make mistakes. To experiment. Big drawings made of many smaller ideas where all things I think of take place. All forms. Unconstrained. The characters. Desires… Like book margin annotations. Secrets within drawings. Memories.’

Carlos Peñalver is a London-based contemporary artist and architect whose work is known for his distinctive black and white pseudo-figurative line drawings ranging from small size works on paper to vast large-scale murals, as well as short film animations, digital art and architectural visualisation. He describes himself as a performance artist. He draws from memory using continuous single strokes.

His work is inventive and rather psychological and always carries twists of irony and criticism within his sometimes childish mostly harmless tone.

It’s dynamic and changeable, being able to become more visceral and unpredictable at times. His drawings are difficult or impossible to replicate.