Fernández Lacomba was born in Seville and graduated in History of Art from Seville University in 1977. That year he turned to painting, which he combined with his work as an exhibition curator. In 1981 Casa de Velázquez in Madrid offered him a grant. Two years later he was awarded another by the Ministry of Culture and in 1985 he obtained yet another from the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs to take a postgraduate course at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. On returning to Spain he set up a studio in Carmona, in the province of Seville. His painting, originally based on the tenets of the French support-surfaces movement, began to shift towards a style dominated by the abstract, balanced against certain elements that tended towards the figurative as he played with the gestural nature of pictorial art, with transparency and with forms that came close to the organic, occupying intermediate spaces or breaking free from the background of the picture. A stand-out example of his work is the series Doñana Suite, which he began in 1995. In it, he plays with the gestural nature of brush-strokes, patches of colour, translucent layers and splattered paint combined with biomorphic shapes to produce his own particular vision of the natural landscape of Doñana natural park and its marshes.
His distinctions include the Luis Cernuda Painting Prize (1985) and the FOCUS Award for Visual Arts (1995). He has been a member of the Santa Isabel de Hungría Royal Academy of Fine Arts since 2012. Since the 1980s his work has appeared at leading galleries in Spain. He has forged particularly close links with the Juana de Aizpuru Gallery, which staged one of his first solo exhibitions in 1985. He has exhibited at the 5th Salón de los 16 event, at the Spanish Museum of Contemporary Art in Madrid (1985) and at group exhibitions at venues including the Canal de Isabel II (Madrid, 1987) and the Andalusia Contemporary Art Centre (Seville, 1993, 2000, 2002 & 2014).
Fernández Lacomba was born in Seville and graduated in History of Art from Seville University in 1977. That year he turned to painting, which he combined with his work as an exhibition curator. In 1981 Casa de Velázquez in Madrid offered him a grant. Two years later he was awarded another by the Ministry of Culture and in 1985 he obtained yet another from the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs to take a postgraduate course at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. On returning to Spain he set up a studio in Carmona, in the province of Seville. His painting, originally based on the tenets of the French support-surfaces movement, began to shift towards a style dominated by the abstract, balanced against certain elements that tended towards the figurative as he played with the gestural nature of pictorial art, with transparency and with forms that came close to the organic, occupying intermediate spaces or breaking free from the background of the picture. A stand-out example of his work is the series Doñana Suite, which he began in 1995. In it, he plays with the gestural nature of brush-strokes, patches of colour, translucent layers and splattered paint combined with biomorphic shapes to produce his own particular vision of the natural landscape of Doñana natural park and its marshes.
His distinctions include the Luis Cernuda Painting Prize (1985) and the FOCUS Award for Visual Arts (1995). He has been a member of the Santa Isabel de Hungría Royal Academy of Fine Arts since 2012. Since the 1980s his work has appeared at leading galleries in Spain. He has forged particularly close links with the Juana de Aizpuru Gallery, which staged one of his first solo exhibitions in 1985. He has exhibited at the 5th Salón de los 16 event, at the Spanish Museum of Contemporary Art in Madrid (1985) and at group exhibitions at venues including the Canal de Isabel II (Madrid, 1987) and the Andalusia Contemporary Art Centre (Seville, 1993, 2000, 2002 & 2014).