A watercolourist, painter and engraver, she was born in Vitoria on 14 December 1931.
A member of the Agrupación de Acuarelistas Vascos, with which she exhibited in numerous collective exhibitions, her first contact with art took place in a markedly family environment. Paz Espada's brother and a brother-in-law practised easel painting with a certain degree of ease.
A restless artist with multiple horizons, she acquired a more in-depth knowledge of the craft at the San Antonio de la Florida School in Madrid, with the teacher and watercolourist Julio Quesada. Subsequently, he continued his studies at the Escuela de Artes y Oficios in his home town, attending the classes of Modelo Vivo taught by Rafael Lafuente, as well as familiarising himself with Alex Van Hoey in the techniques of graphic printing: lithography, silkscreen and engraving. His knowledge of engraving, in turn, expanded with the teachings of Ignacio Chillida and Lauren Aliende.
He lived for several years in Madrid until he settled permanently in his native Vitoria at the beginning of the eighties. Until the present day. He began exhibiting his work, properly speaking, in 1982, in the Sala Luis de Ajuria in Vitoria-Gasteiz. Since then, he has had a more than acceptable number of solo exhibitions.
He exhibits relatively frequently in the capital of Alava, having also attended with equal care to other professional commitments in galleries in Madrid, Bilbao, Zaragoza, Burgos, Marbella, Bernidorm, Tangiers, Mieres and the northern Basque Country (San Jean de Pied de Port and Anglet). She is also a member of the groups Haitzea and Línea 98, with which she has recently n her work as a watercolourist and engraver.
And although it would be partial and reductionist to analyse all Paz Espada's artistic work from the particular field of watercolour, it is within this experience of water painting, however, where she has achieved more just renown in view of the awards she has won. In 1989, with this modality, he received the recognition of a second medal in the Fine Arts Contest of Madrid, as well as the Caja Madrid Prize in the Salón de Otoño. In 1993 he received an honourable mention in the National Watercolour Competition of Caja Madrid, and in 1995 he was awarded the First Medal for Watercolour and the First Prize of the Madrid City Council in the LXII Salón de Otoño. Apart from the above mentioned, he has also accumulated in his curriculum other prizes of greater or lesser prestige.
Without wishing to be exclusive, still lifes and the intimate and domestic corners of houses make up the thematic ideology of his work, together with landscapes and, more occasionally, compositions or scenes of musicians playing instruments.
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