Pablo Sarado is a contemporary artist whose work sits between neo-expressionism, gestural abstraction and Art Brut-inspired painting.
Drawing from dreams, study, lived experience, music, religion and politics, Sarado creates paintings that combine crude figures, handwritten phrases, recurring symbols and deliberately awkward mark-making. His work borrows from the visual freedom of childhood—a time when drawing is instinctive, unconcerned with proportion, technical correctness or the fear of making mistakes—and uses that language to explore distinctly adult ideas.
Identity, mortality, anxiety, relationships, belief, desire and the absurdity of everyday life appear throughout the work, often alongside humour and seemingly nonsensical imagery. Bright colour and naïve forms can initially make the paintings feel playful or immature, while more serious psychological, social and existential ideas sit beneath the surface.
Rather than refining a painting toward perfection, Sarado allows mistakes, revisions, erasures and unresolved marks to remain visible. Figures emerge and disappear, words behave as images, and personal symbols repeat across different works.
At the centre of the practice is a tension between innocence and experience: childlike art about adult things.