‘He had to be born in Sant Carles de la Ràpita, next to the Ebro Delta, to be impregnated with the beauty of the canals that run through the rice fields, to live with the Mediterranean and its sun and to learn from the multiple influences written in these lands by the successive invasions of Iberians, Celts, Greeks and Romans. Painting has been the formula that has allowed Josep Veciana to make the most of the aroma of this San Carles that reminded Josep Pla of Venice. And he has done so by embedding the strength of the Mediterranean in his colours. And he has forced himself to make his themes brim with the texture, luminosity and the imprint of other cultures that dressed his childhood’.

Text by Margarita Puig, journalist of ‘La Vanguardia’.