"(...) her pieces of work are intense, stormy, but in calmness.
They move in their own spirals, gaining new strength and swallowing,
like a tornado, the shadows of memory.
Her art seems of taking a flight from all the strength condensed in it,
from all the future life contained within (...)"
Laura Revuelta. Art Critic. Introduction of the catalogue sponsored by Osborne, October 2005
"(...) the obsessive search of the intimate control of the colour (...) the first stage of the colour plays a fundamental roll in the configuration of the shapes (...) the palette of colours she uses is excessive, it is exciting, lighten up, almost about to collapse, out of any usual naturalism."
A.H. Pozuelo. Spain, El Cultural, El Mundo, 6 October 2005
"(...) Belén Cavestany, the unmissable exhibition."
Casa & Campo, Spain, October 2005
"(...) her series of "Morphologies", of brave expression and notable mystic power."
Art Magazine, Spain, Septembre 2003
"(...) It doesn´t matter if she uses canvas or paper; her work goes beyond the unconscious and make us think about realities that are apparently simple. The great maturity of this artist transmits us her simbols as if they were the changeless wheel of life. She tries to embrace the world with her way of expression. It seems as if her paintings wanted to trespass its holders, searching to melt into a bigger outer space (...)"
Antonio J. Hurtado. Introduction to the catalogue for the exhibition "Cuestión de Espíritu".
Spain, September 2000
"(...) Belén Cavestany, à bonne distance d'une Espagne touristique et attachée par tant de liens aux traditions, s'exprime avec vigueur, concentrée, avec une étonante assurance. Elle a une façon très particulière d'aborder et de dominer la nature. L'artiste a infiniment de fermeté (...)"
Stéphane Rey. L'ECHO, Belgium 14 September 2000
"(...) The exhibition that The London School of Economics dedicates to a Spanish artist is based on Andalusia, its landscapes, the Mediterranean colors, the wild Nature and its horses. The paintings of Belén Cavestany have passion and expressive strength. Her influences come from great masters such as Van Gogh, Magritte and Bacon".
COPE Radio, Spain, 21 March 1999
"(…) Her oil paintings can be compared with those of the German expressionism such as "Die Brucke", full of a desire to break the standard rules. (…) All her canvases are united by Nature’s own harmony. These are paintings both with technical quality and sensual charm."
Jesus Lazaro, DIARIO MONTAÑES, Santander, Spain, 22 January 1999
" Belen Cavestany´s roots are fierce. Include her in the Iberian ferociousness’ is an act of justice. (...) Her yellow trees want to associate themselves with the Mediterranean landscape trend(...) She is a very personal painter. Her blue and red horses, drawn with lines, are related with the music. She is a painter of harmonies (...)"
Antonio Martínez Cerezo. International Art Critic Association. Spain, 12 January 1999
"(...) Radical and assertive in its structural composition (...) her language is direct, full of sound with expressionist stroke, incredibly personal and deliberately individualistic. It is a poetic form of interpreting New Painting. (...) It contains a way of expressing a romantic spirit that defends subjectivity with no fear of heterogeneous results. (...) The figurative, strongly expressive and romantic paintings of Belen Cavestany are deeply committed to the search of formal and aesthetic personal interiors. It is primarily a visual art that leaves the spectator with a magnificent and intense impact (...)"
Marin Medina, art critic. Introduction to the catalogue patronize by the Coca-Cola Art Foundation.
Spain, June 1998
" This young artist expresses herself using different themes. Sometimes we can see scenes of landscapes zigzagging around the planted banks of a river or trees full of leaves being agitated by strong winds. Now, with this exhibition, we can see scenes where the horse is the main character. In spite of the thematic difference there is a strong coherence in her work. The images are built up as metaphors of an interior search, of a way to find perfection. Throughout her work one can recognize a strong dose of expression and nerve. Belen’s paintings have their deepest reason of being in the constant effort of self-improvement and learning where she has immersed herself into with all its consequences."
Laura Revuelta, BLANCO Y NEGRO, 14 June, 1998
(...) "In this exhibition in the Gallery Montalbán, centred in the horse figure, she has bet for the synthesis in the shapes. She draws with it a personal world."
Carlos García-Osuna, EL SEMANAL, 14 June, 1998
(...) "Her paintings of big dimensions are expressionist, lyric and poetic, she talks about her inside.(...) They are full of contrast and drama." (...)
DIARIO DE CADIZ Newspaper. Spain. 18 January, 1998
"The trip around the world became a great experience that has opened new doors for me. (...) I have filled my memory with images. Sensations that over the next months I will develop in my studio (...) The climatic, architectural and geographic differences of each stop have been the inspiration for my illustrative diary of the trip."
"Latent images of a trip around the world"
RONDA. Aerolineas Argentinas Flight Magazine. Argentina. February 1998
(...) " The artist excels with kindness in her eyes and firmness in her hand (...). There is a sort of mutual understanding between Belen Cavestany and Nature, a special bonding with spiritual awareness that comes out as happiness and sadness together."
Stéphane Rey, L’ECHO, Belgium, 15 May 1998
(...) Belén Cavestany, a young painter that has come to our country in search of the inspiration from our landscapes and colours. Her paintings are from inside and speak of a personal world, based on a modern conception of art. She thinks life and simplicity, as well as Nature, must be presented in her work. (...)
Victor del Rio, SBS RADIO. Australia, 4 March, 1997
(...) "In her work the spirit of great masters, such as Van Gogh, Bacon or Morandi can be foreseen (...) Colour, light and movement ... very different are the reasons that cause these paintings. In fact, they are a search desire deeply rooted. (...) She insists over the unknown one time after the other, trying to learn in a large and calm way, because she does not seem to just get satisfied with anything easy or difficult." (...)
Laura Revuelta. ABC Newspaper. Blanco y Negro. Spain . 19 January, 1997
She expresses through her landscapes and paintings of animals all that touches and defines her as a human being (...) Van Gogh and Bacon seem to be her guardian angels. (...) She only has to feel the pressure of her inside feelings, the restlessness of that she is looking at, and the ideas emerge. (...) Survive painting and live painting." (...)
Cristina Gascón, ANTENA SEMANAL Magazine. Spain. February 1997
(...) "She works on the canvas with direct gestures, palette knife strokes and sufficient matter quantity to distort the reality, not only by her expressive strength but also for a determinate lyricism." (...)
Carlos García-Osuna, Art Critic. ABC Cultural Newspaper. Spain. January 1997
(...) "Belen Cavestany’s work has powerful strokes and a modern expressionist concept."
Mario Antolín Paz, Art Critic
Dictionary of the Twentieth Century Spanish Painters and Sculptors. Forum Artis Edition, 1995
"Belen Cavestany is a painter of impetuous youth, that manifests itself through a work of art that shouts from deep inside, from an almost volcanic visceral way. Her use of materials synthesizes a restless expression."
José Carralero, Vice-Chancellor of School of Fine Arts.
University of Madrid for Greenpeace International webpage. October 1995
"She uses the shape of the brush-stroke to express the turbulent world of emotions. You perceive her work invites to action. Her paintings tell us with depth and serenity that we are missing love in our relationship with the world."
María Lopez, Spanish Artist. November 1995
"Belen Cavestany is in constant search for her own possibilities. She knows well her own vital experiences and she expresses them without forcing them in a continuous development of her painting skills. She is full of intuition that gets reflected through her unique use of colour."
Professor María Jesus Viguera, University of Madrid. Spain. November 1995