Houses on stilts on the Amazon taken from the "Jungle" series is a painting by contemporary Spanish artist Calo Carratalá which is in the form of a tondo. It portrays two palafittes, stilt houses, at the edge of the Amazon river, behind which flourishes a dense South American tropical forest.

In the series: ‘Jungle’, Spanish artist Calo Carratalá shares his vision of the Amazonian rainforest, which he has travelled to on numerous expeditions in Peru, Ecuador and Brazil. Calo Carratalá recreates the landscape, drawing on his personal experiences and the sensations the setting exudes. His paintings and drawings illustrate a forest that he has lived in, transcended and fully assimilated.

With each brushstroke, the air’s humidity becomes more palpable, feelings of fear or excitement are almost real in sinking into a forest so thick that it seems ready to swallow you.  Without pushing it, the artist questions our relationship with nature and the ambivalent feelings it can inspire, in-between fascination and fear.

"I am searching for the last great wildernesses which must be preserved" - Calo Carratalá

A one off and signed by the artist.

Calo Carratalá is a contemporary Spanish artist, based in Valencia, specializing in landscapes. With a passion for traveling, he has visited the Amazon, Colorado, the Alps and the Pyrenees and even the forests of Norway : always armed with sketching pad, the artist sketches the sensations he obtains from the different places he visits. Similar to the artists from the romantic period, Calo Carratalá portrays a natural landscape which is both agitated, perhaps even worrying, and also grandiose inciting admiration and contemplation.