Aura Delamotte Barrera (b. 1995, Colombia) is a Colombian artist based in France.

Working primarily across painting and drawing, her practice is grounded in sustained studio discipline and the development of cohesive bodies of work. Aura’s work explores fragmentation, mark-making, and the destabilization of language, drawing on the influence of expressionism and abstraction. Surfaces are layered, interrupted, and reconstructed; words appear in partial form, functioning as structural elements rather than narrative devices.

A restrained, earth-based palette underpins much of the work, occasionally disrupted by subtle chromatic tension. Across large-scale canvases and intimate works on paper, the practice navigates rupture, perception, and reconstruction, carrying a quiet undercurrent of interior belief and spiritual tension.

She engages in a daily practice of reveries; small, intuitive compositions created in a journal as a means to train the mind in continual composition and exploration. These reveries serve as studies in form, gesture, and color, and while small in scale, they remain integral to her overall creative process. The reveries feed into her larger bodies of work, demonstrating an ongoing commitment to discipline and creative expression.

The artist’s practice is further informed by an academic foundation in Art Direction, Art History, and Museology, alongside continuous self-directed studies in figure construction, color theory, and technical fundamentals.

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