Biografía:

Impressionism has been the last great European pictorial school: a school that, after some time (lees than what is usually said) of academic critique incomprehension, obtained the general public’s acceptance.

The movements that have later followed, the uncountable "isms" and battles, have not succeded in earning the public’s unanimous favor nor in having formed a coherent group with sufficient unity of style and well defined personality as that of Impressionism or, to mention others from the past the Venetian or the Neoclassical schools.

Although Impressionism in a strict sense has a concrete chronological or geographical delimitation, in a broader sense it requires that we point out its precedents and precursors: remember Tuner , Goya, Velázquez and even certain Pompeyan frescos; equally one could talk about continuing legacy of artist.

In Valencia there have been a good number of artists that have more or less frequented impressionism, and several continue to exist actively, as and these are the first to come to mind Bronchú and Giner Bueno, both painters whom years ago I dared call, with a somewhat hyperbolic denomination that has nevertheless gained fame, "school of Godella".

Of course, these painters have neither done nor are currently doing rigorous literal impressionism - that would not be possible a century away from the original movement -, but an Impressionism sui generis personal, as is logically expected of any artist worthy of such a name.

And this is what Jose Luis Checa has been doing until now with a tenacity and an honesty worthy of praise, an artist that, corresponding to the tendency he cultivates, prefers painting in open air to working in a studio, and to whom the game of color that light reflects from things bears more interest to him than the things themselves; a painter, in the end, who cares more about translating onto the canvas the sensation that the world produces upon him - his impression - rather than giving shape to the ideas that the world awakes in him - his expression -.

Checa is an artist with an open and hypersensitive retina moved by the beautiful and changing chromatic e epidermis of nature; a painter in love with transitory and fleeting things within his surrounding world: light, sky, clouds, water…

And for this same reason Checa is also and will always be a landscape painter - wich is what they essentially the old and more purely affiliated to Impressionism, were-.

Because in the art of painting the most genuine landscapes are those that reflect the impression, instantaneous and exciting, that the environment produces upon a receptive artist, in a spirit capable of reflecting, like an echo, the aesthetic impact of some magical parcel of an inexhaustible nature.

Adolfo de Azarraga
From the book Caja de Ahorros de Valencia on Valencian Painters