Valencia mourns a heartfelt loss this Thursday morning. Cadena SER reported through Radio Valencia the death of Concha García, this morning at the age of 93. Concha she had gained notoriety on social networks in the last five years, creating an Instagram account where she created artistic works from Paint, the default drawing program at Microsoft. The veteran painter had more than 300,000 followers on her profile.
“Concha García Zaera, better known to all of you as La abuela del Paint, has passed away today, July 20, 2023. Her daughters and son and granddaughters and grandsons and great-grandson, we want to thank you from the bottom of our hearts for all the love she has received these years for all of you. She will always be in our hearts, ”the family reported through the artist’s favorite social network. A goodbye that puts an end to a long history of paintings and successes.
The Valencian radio was in charge of discovering Concha in 2018. She was a fan of painting who could not hang pictures at home. Her reason was her husband’s illness, which prevented her from having paints at home because of the odors and vapors that she could give off. That is why she was encouraged to use Microsoft Paint, mainly to replicate postcards and other illustrations that she liked. Her granddaughters, aware of her talent, encouraged her to publish her creations.
The interview on Radio Valencia increased his number of followers and his popularity, which spread internationally. Soon it exceeded 160,000 followers on social networks, organically according to the words of experts. Her good work and her attitude when interacting on her social network led her to make different special collaborations, such as the poster that Disney commissioned her to promote the premiere of the movie Mary Poppins 2.
Concha was also a participant in campaigns run by the Generalitat Valenciana, such as the one called Vull ser com… for March 8. In addition, the entity awarded him the Millor Major award in 2018 for his work in promoting the use of new technologies among the elderly. In 2021, during the Fallas in Valencia, Concha was immortalized in a creation by the fallero artist Chucky for the Seville-Denia falla, something that she thought was “the best thing that could happen to her”.
García Zaera spoke to La Vanguardia in 2019, shortly after collaborating with Disney, expressing his surprise: “The truth is that I never thought something like this could happen to me, especially with a company as important as that and with such an endearing character in the cinema like Mary Poppins. They didn’t give me many conditions or short deadlines, they gave me time, almost a month, they just wanted me to make a drawing with Paint of the protagonist, and when I had it I sent it to them”.
