Painting the Language of the Subconscious.

The Artist

Ester Batllori

Based in Berlin

My path back to painting was not a straight one. I moved through communication, frontend development, and UX/UI design — years of building, adapting, and working in fields that taught me a great deal, but never felt entirely like home.

Painting was always there beneath it all. When I returned to it, I recognized something essential: this was the language that came most naturally to me. My work emerges intuitively, through rhythm, repetition, and gesture. Shapes appear like symbols, as if carrying meanings that cannot be fully named. Within them, hidden forms surface — fragments of nature, animals, faces, traces of an inner world.

What once felt like chaos has become a visual language drawn from the subconscious. Painting is now my way of giving form to that unseen world — with simplicity, freedom, and joy. For a long time, however, perfectionism, self-criticism, and expectation stood in the way, making the act of painting feel more like pressure than instinct. Letting go of that has allowed me to return to the work with greater openness, trust, and pleasure.