Fátima de Juan (Palma de Mallorca, 1984) is an artist based in Mallorca. Her first contact with the world of painting was through graffiti as a teenager under the alias “Xena.” Years later, she studied Illustration at the School of Arts and Crafts in Palma and Graphic Design in Madrid.

Women are a constant presence in all her work—strong women with large arms, exuberant features, and claws, reflecting an attitude that exudes femininity, sweetness, and brute strength. Nature, the exotic, the primitive, the naïve, the erotic, the tropical, fantasy, and magic coexist in her personal universe through vivid colors and velvety textures that give her work an almost real yet naïve dimension at the same time.

Ancestral elements such as fruits, pitchers, stones, and swords coexist with more “aesthetic,” street, and futuristic elements, shaping the artist’s dreamlike imagery filled with contrasts and sweetly aggressive self-portraits.