Raquel Cortijo is a Spanish textile artist, holding a degree in Fine Arts and a Master's in Art, Creation, and Research. She is currently in her final year of Textile Art studies at the Escuela de Arte y Superior de Diseño de Segovia. After years of exploration across various disciplines, she found her essential language in textile art—the place where her sensibility and her training converge in an intimate and powerful way.
For the past three years, her work has been deeply rooted in the exploration of sustainable techniques and natural processes. Her artistic practice, a bridge between contemporary art and ancestral craft, focuses on the use of natural dyes, eco-printing, and regenerative embroidery (boro/sashiko) to create works that act as sensitive maps of time and place.
Her approach—meticulous, slow, and radically ecological—transforms each piece into a poetic testimony of her immediate surroundings, capturing the chromatic and textural essence of local flora through the alchemy of dyeing and the precision of the needle. Cortijo's work, whether in the form of wall pieces, installations, or textile objects, reflects on the memory of materials, patience as a creative act, and the essential dialogue between the human hand and the processes of nature.
Her work has been developed in the context of her studio-workshop, a living laboratory for experimentation with pigments and fibers, and is part of the contemporary conversation around sustainable textile art and slow creation. In the loom, the dye vat, and the gesture of stitching, she has found not just a craft, but her own territory: a space where thought, material, and time intertwine to shape a conscious and rooted beauty.