“El jardín de los milagros”

Artist: Rosana Auqué
Year: 2021
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Dimensions: 40 × 50 cm

El Jardín de los Milagros – A Spiritual Contemporary Painting by Rosana Auqué

El Jardín de los Milagros (2021) is an oval acrylic and bronze painting on canvas measuring 40 x 50 cm. In this luminous work, Rosana Auqué explores the spiritual atmosphere of Christmas — a sacred moment when heaven symbolically opens to receive human prayers.

The painting evokes a miraculous sky, radiant and suspended between the earthly and the divine. Through layered acrylic textures and subtle bronze interventions, Auqué constructs a visual field that feels both intimate and infinite. The oval format reinforces this sense of sacred enclosure, recalling ancient devotional medallions while remaining firmly rooted in contemporary abstraction.

Rather than illustrating religion in a literal sense, the work translates faith into light. The bronze elements shimmer across the surface like celestial fragments, suggesting movement, divine presence, and silent hope. The sky becomes a garden — not botanical, but spiritual — where desires are planted as prayers and transformed into possibility.

This piece reflects the artist’s ongoing dialogue with transcendence, gratitude, and the invisible dimensions of human longing. Inspired by the Christmas season, when symbolic “gates of heaven” are believed to be open, Rosana Auqué sought to paint a miraculous heaven: bright, spiritual, and receptive.

The result is a contemplative composition that invites stillness. Viewers are not merely observers but participants, standing before a surface that feels like a threshold. The painting does not impose belief; it offers space for reflection. It asks quietly: what miracle do you carry within you?

Technique, Materiality and Symbolism

The combination of acrylic and bronze on canvas creates a dialogue between fluidity and permanence. Acrylic allows for luminous transparency and layered chromatic depth, while bronze introduces weight, texture, and subtle metallic reflection. This contrast enhances the spiritual metaphor at the heart of the work: the meeting of heaven and earth, matter and prayer.

The oval shape (40 x 50 cm) departs from traditional rectangular framing, reinforcing the idea of sacred space. The form contains the composition like a portal, emphasizing continuity rather than edges.

Spiritual Context and Christmas Inspiration

Christmas, within Christian tradition, represents a time when divine presence enters human reality. In El Jardín de los Milagros, that theological idea becomes visual atmosphere. The sky is not depicted descriptively; it is suggested through luminosity, gesture, and texture.

Auqué’s approach avoids narrative imagery. Instead, she builds a contemplative field where viewers may project their own prayers, memories, or hopes. The painting becomes a place of reception — a symbolic garden where longing is transformed into light.