Richell Castellón Ferreira is a Cuban-born impressionist artist based in the United States.

His style is loose, improvisatory in feel, but there is a strong sense of place in each of his paintings — be it a scene from Cuba, NYC or Syracuse, New York. While each scene represents a moment in time, Castellón fills them with an energy and spontaneity that also reflects an acute sense of observation. All the paintings exude a powerful sensitivity to the light or movement within a scene.

Sometimes he offers us an unresolved narrative, and sometimes it’s simply about a naturally occurring play of lines, shapes, and patterns within an urban landscape. But there’s always an infusion of light and movement, be it within a fully rendered color palette or within restrained tones of gray, black and white.

Almost six years have passed since Castellón moved from the only country he had ever known to the unfamiliar landscape of Upstate New York. In that time, he has steadfastly figured out how to rebuild a life, one that supports his innate passion to paint and to be the artist he knows he can become.