Quejido began painting after arriving in Madrid in 1964. Initially he followed expressionistic postulates, and from there he engaged in experimentation with visual poetry and conceptual and cybernetic projects in the Calculus Centre at Universidad Complutense in Madrid. A member of the movement from Madrid, in the 1970s he returned to painting, opting for a provocative and ironic figuration resonating with . Executed with a vibrant brushwork, his practice is defined by a lively, uninhibited palette.
A work from his mature period, this transparent and luminous painting shows the interior of his studio at La Nave, a centre devoted to the renewal of art in the 1980s in a former ice plant located on the edge of what in the late 19^th century had been known as La Quinta del Sordo, on the banks of the Manzanares river. La Nave housed artists from various disciplines, including painters, photographers and musicians.
The space of the studio, almost like a gallery of mirrors, is the setting for this composition, depicting an intimate scene made in shaded, imprecise tones and bathed with a white light rendered with heavier impasto. The lack of definition of the space and the ethereal atmosphere endow the composition with great character.