14/03/2025
‘Cayetano Sanz de Santamaría’
Cayetano Sanz de Santamaría is a visual artist whose work moves between drawing and painting, but his creative universe has deeper roots. He grew up between Bogotá and the countryside, surrounded by horses, bulls, and a landscape that invited him to observe and capture it. His father, a cattle rancher and bull breeder, may have envisioned a different path for him—perhaps the bullring instead of the canvas—but it was precisely the intensity of bullfighting and the essence of life in the countryside that first drew him to art. While he acknowledges its controversy, for him, it was an aesthetic experience that speaks viscerally about life and death. From an early age, Cayetano drew compulsively—not out of passion, but as a necessity—filling every blank page he could find. Today, that same impulse continues to drive his work: an exploration of mythology, folklore, and the human psyche that has taken him from Bogotá, to London, as he seeks to tell stories through images that invite viewers to lose themselves and imagine.
-MADE IN BED’s Social Media Manager, Mariana Duque Mordecai
