Eugenia Martínez de Irujo: "I haven't set foot in a bullring since I separated 23 years ago"

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He arrives at the scheduled time (his hobby is punctuality and order), with a large folder in his hand with colorful covers, where there are exotic flowers and birds.

A paper designed by herself, which is part of her latest projects, which she will announce this March.

She opens the folder and reveals with great enthusiasm her still unpublished drawings of hers, planned to illustrate her next collections of

Eugenia Martínez de Irujo is an artist with a late vocation: rather, she has spent many years without making her creative talent known.

"It's just that I was ashamed, I thought I wasn't going to like it at all," she told LOC. "

My dream was to make photo albums or diaries and years later, it has been possible."

Everything materialized in 2020, when the pandemic passed on her farm in Seville with her husband Narcís Rebollo.

While he, president of Universal Music for Spain and Portugal, set up an entire office in a room in La Pizana, Eugenia began to paint

.

A collection, for charitable purposes, that ended up being exhibited in the Madrid gallery of hers, her nephew Jacobo Fitz-James Stuart, and it was sold in its entirety.

With the second exposure, the same thing happened.

with those prints, unique pieces with very laborious craftsmanship.

"Personally it was enormously satisfying and the success was brutal, but I sold them too cheaply for what it cost to make them, it wasn't worth it," he adds.

Your sources of inspiration. I see a screen and I take a photo of it, or a flower.

And I'm mixing them, I make a collage.

Then I give them color and a new image.

Today I have seen a canvas with a leopard: I want to paint it in a bright color and put wings on it.

Less than a year ago, her friend

was fascinated by Eugenia's second exhibition and suggested she make tableware with these original animal or plant motifs.

This is how Eugenia & Sushita was born, a company today at full capacity.

Segimón liked that mix of colors in keeping with the personality of Eugenia herself, so recognizable in her work.

At the moment they sell on the internet and in pop up markets.

The next one will be in Seville and the next one in Barcelona.

The first physical store will be in La Moraleja, where Sushita opens its new establishment.

Eugenia and Sandra's aspiration is to reach

and people on the street.

And they have a proposal from El Corte Inglés that makes them very excited.

What would your mother say if she saw all this? She would have been crazy, what I do is very hers.

She would also love a collection that we are going to do with old engravings. And the series that you have done on the Kamasutra? (He takes the photos from her mobile phone and shows them.) My mother would have understood, she did not care about these things .

I have inherited from her her interest in art and also her sense of freedom.

The one who should have liked her less was my brother Carlos, but what can you do. And you continue your collaboration with Tous. It's been 25 years now!

I make a collection a year and apart from the series on the marine world, endangered animals or the oceans, topics that I am passionate about, I have the idea of ​​making bracelets with inserted images of emblematic women who are in the paintings of my house (the palace of Liria).

Making wristbands with the figure of Eugenia de Montijo or the Countess of Siruela, also a very important character.

In the painting, she is wearing a pearl necklace that I am going to turn into thinner bandages. You could have marketed your creations as the Duchess of Montoro, but you never use the title. ", but at the same time I wear it with great pride.

It was my mother's title and I consider it mostly sentimental, but I don't go duchess for life.

It would never occur to me to call a restaurant asking for a table for the Duchess of Montoro. It is a bit contradictory that you pick up burritos, pigs or mistreated dogs and the love of bulls. Uffff!

Don't bring me up on that subject.

I have been 23 years, since I separated, without stepping on a square.

It is striking that you have not studied outside of Spain, like all young women from good families. That has always weighed on me.

It was an effort from my mother, that she did not want to send me away in any way.

It has been pure and simple selfishness.

That's why I sent Cayetana to England, because going out helps you to be anonymous, to get to know yourself, to function alone, to meet people, to speak languages.

It will regret my whole life not having had that experience.

But when Tana left, she missed her so much that she couldn't go home and see the door to her room shut tight. You have made a winery in Liria. The idea of ​​having a space for events was also made. It is a warehouse, but it is beautiful, with a vaulted part.

The party that the American ambassador organized there for Glenn Close was wonderful, that actress impressed me,

whom he admired greatly.

Like Katherine Hepburn.

When she died, I cried. Narcís has opened you up to the world.

You travel everywhere. We make three or four trips a year, although I've been out a lot since I was young with friends and I've even been to Japan with my mother. (Coincidentally, her phone rings and it's her husband from Miami). You look happy with this relationship. It is that Narcís always makes me add.

The one who supports me the most in everything I start up;

He advises me, he helps me.

I am the creative part and he is the numbers.

For that, I'm a disaster and he, as a manager, is terrific.

A perfect combination. You have more than 300,000 followers, you are a true influencer. I'm not an influencer!

And it's something that saturates me a lot, it takes time and it's exhausting.

But I'm super grateful because people can't be more affectionate with me,

It comes from my mother to have that affection from others, it's exciting.

I also recognize that social networks are good for showing the work I do, although it is not the same to show a plate of crockery than to talk about your private life.Eug

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