Iron Jungles n°10, taken from the "Jungle" series, is a painting by contemporary Spanish artist Calo Carratalá which is in the form of a tondo. It portrays a boat on the Amazon river, behind which a dense South American tropical forest flourishes. 

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 humid air becomes more and more palpable, the dense forest drawing you in giving way to an almost real overwhelming sensation of fear or excitement.  Without implying it, the artist challenges our relationship with nature, and the ambivalent feelings it can inspire, between fear and fascination. 

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

One off piece 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 his sketching pad, the artist sketches the sensations he has in the different places he visits. Like the artists of the romantic period, Calo Carratalá portrays a natural landscape which is both agitated and grandiose at the same time, inciting admiration and contemplation.