Artist Statement

My artwork is a visual expression of poetry and music. I use my palette to create images that evoke emotion within the viewer, like the carefully chosen words of a moving poem or the penetrating sounds of a soulful arrangement of musical notes. Freedom, rapture, passion, mystery, spirituality and identity are common themes that I address through the lens of my camera and on the surface of my canvas. 

I label my genre “Geometric Romanticism”, fusing together the normally separate worlds of Geometry and Romanticism, melding the familiar with the abstract, the mathematical with the fanciful, the measurable with the elusive. My subjects are surrounded and enveloped by ever-present challenges, hope, dreams, faith, sensuality and mystery symbolized by the embracing backdrop of abstract geometrical shapes. I would like the complex imagery in my art to act as a maze that entices the viewer to navigate, explore and discover their own personal truth through their viewing journey.

Geometric Romanticism

"Valle's integrative, digital paintings are surreal and evoke a sense of timelessness. The viewer becomes lost in the rich backgrounds and mazes that create infinite worlds within each piece. Techno brushwork characterizes Valle's technique- he gracefully combines the technology of digital imaging with an artist's sensitivity for his medium. Each painting starts with an original photograph that has been converted into a digital image. Through the computer, Valle literally paints over his photograph, the digital enhancements act as elements of mixed media applied on top of the initial composition. Only portions of the photograph remain untouched by the artists brush, thus coaxing the viewer to search for clues as if solving the mystery of Valle's visual world".
– Mary Pomerantz


"Grata sorpresa con signos abstractos de un alunizaje en esta tierra de todos y de nadie que es el arte
me esperaba casi como un fantasma presentido vertiendo una cascada de imagen y poesia, de poesia e imagen inaugurando el oceano de un navegante agitado por el delirio, la imaginacion, el tormento existencial; el acicate de nostalgia y lejania; la avidez por lo infinito y una propuesta lirico-visual por las barreras de lo inalcanzable...Musikanter"