Lidia Piqué

Lidia Piqué, Barcelona/Menorca, is a contemporary artist whose practice explores the inner landscape, impermanence, and the relationship between thought, perception, and presence. Her research primarily unfolds through Chinese ink, tea, and natural pigments, materials she uses to explore transformation, transparency, gesture, and the passage of time.

Alongside this, she develops a body of work around the Ensō, the circle of Zen tradition, as a space for observing the mind, attention, and the relationship between emptiness and form. Her painting emerges from a slow and attentive process in which material and gesture play a fundamental role.

Her relationship with art began at the age of 21, when she undertook artistic training in the United States focused on drawing, charcoal, and painting. She later moved to Paris, where she studied Art History and deepened her relationship with museums, galleries, and contemporary art. After a long period devoted to other professional fields, she returned to her artistic practice and began studying sumi-e, the traditional Japanese art of ink painting, which has become one of the starting points of her current research.

Her career is deeply connected to Asia and tea culture. She is the founder of Ensō Art Gallery, in Menorca, and Teandbe, a project dedicated to tea and Asian culture. She is also a writer and author of books on tea and wellbeing, as well as a Tai Chi and Qi Gong instructor.

Her work brings together matter, nature, Asian culture, and contemplation, seeking to translate into the language of painting a reflection on attention, the inner world, and our relationship with the passage of time.