Carmen Pagés

I was born into a Republican family that had just lost a fratricidal war that had left two sides, one victorious and arrogant, the other defeated and trampled underfoot.
My grandmother had a hat workshop and my father had to retrain and set up a lampshade workshop. Although the family’s financial situation was precarious, my father sent his three daughters to the French Lycée. He wanted them to have a free and egalitarian education, without a trace of the Catholic National Socialism that dominated Spanish education.
At the school, great importance was given to reading and writing. One day, the topic was “What do you want to be when you grow up?” and it was the first time that, without any doubt, I thought “a painter.”
When I entered the School of Fine Arts, everything that interested me most was there: an entire school dedicated to art, endearing classmates with a passion for creating and learning, although there was always some teacher who
reminded us that the school had been great until it was filled with women.
Although Spain has changed slowly, many of the vices of the dictatorship remain, but women are breaking through that wall and now there are many painters with brilliant careers who know how to find their place. Most of
thecreators of my generation have arrived late. C.P. Since 1970, Carmen Pagés has participated in numerous national exhibitions, notably those held at the Galería Macarrón and Galería Seiquer in Madrid.