Jordi Isern, with innate qualities in the painting world, offers landscape themes of our countryside with a maturity and a “savoir faire” that captivate us and place him on the level of the great masters of the Catalan landscape. He has a palette of solid colours, brave when convenient and delicate when the theme requires it and all with a firm pictorial training not exempt of touches of craftwork –not understood as a popular version of simple mechanism and without inspiration- but as a concept of having trade, of belonging to a school and of carrying the legacy of tradition, as asserted by the great master Eugeni d’Ors. Jordi Isern is an important and acclaimed figure of the Catalan painting world and in the current scene where anything is considered Art; it would be convenient that –once more - the concepts of inspiration, quality and training present in the work of Jordi Isern were taken into consideration.

ISERN AND THE CALM OF THE SPIRIT
Although he was born in Barcelona in 1969, Jordi Isern is a painter of the Alt Camp, of the Garrotxa and, in general, of the interior lands of Catalunya, although he has also shown his artistic and human interest for other geographic areas when the chance or the creative curiosity have lead him to connect with them. He chose as a regular home the town of Alcover, from where his father's family originated, to find from there the satisfaction of capturing the history still within the old streets, squares and houses which are related to the mystery of nature. Because it is specially in the fields of wheat and buckwheat, so green when they are growing and so yellow when ripining; in the skies that become cloudy; in the mountains that preside from the distance; in the streams that pass through the meadows and the still remaining farm houses, when his senses sharpen, and enthusiastic about what he finds although with a clear sense of what he needs to do as a painter, he describes what he sees and feels. Isern's figuratism never avoids the representation of landscapes that his innate sense of beauty and the great capacity he has to mix colours lead him to choose. He has a very well worked technique and he knows how to combine the pictorial effects to achieve the impact he searches for. Although this is never sufficient for him. He needs the excitement and the will of constructing a work, made with each painting, which reflects the assertment that the land is better than the human being that rules over it and uses it. Because, besides from the assaults it receives since the world exists it never stops to give us fruits and invites us to calm our spirit after inevitable storms so that we can perform, united and in harmony the coral work that we should. Painting of peace, based on the repeated and always new fact offered by the Nature in which we live immersed in, although many of us do not want to see if it is not a time of relax or hollydays. Isern makes us see it, although with a constant which can be reached by contemplating his paintings. The idealisation within them never stops being connected with the existing reality and which is like a Paradise that we can touch and visit if we can take advantage of our cognitive capacities in the same way as the artist. Our society is the current one, but in order to really flow from it we need to feel that it links both to the past and to the future with regard to what is essential, within the relationship with the environment and of the desire – Why not? of eternity.