This Tuesday, May 16, one of the six actors who have given life to agent 007, with a license to kill, turns seven decades old. Brosnan, Pierce Brosnan has been the penultimate Bond, but before he took up the gun to fix the world, he already used the brushes to put order in his own world. And now, as if it were a birthday present, he has opened a pictorial exhibition in Los Angeles, where he lives.

The So many dreams (so many dreams) exhibition is open from the 14th to Sunday and includes 50 paintings plus 100 of his drawings in which there are references to artists he admires such as Picasso, Matisse or Bob Dylan and there are also dream visions with wavy shapes. The works can be purchased for a price ranging from $3,500 to $5,000.

Pierce Brosnan assures that his love for painting has always been there: “I dropped out of school at the age of 16 and all I had was a folder full of drawings. I didn’t have any academic credentials, but I loved art.” And he adds: “I grew up in the south of Ireland, a bit alone, being an only child, but I grew up in my imagination, playing on the banks of the River Boyne. I always wondered where these forms came from that I now see myself reflecting in my art, and I have realized that they are the forms of my childhood, like pieces of a puzzle that float in the air”, explains the actor in a documentary that accompanies the exhibition and has been produced by his son Dylan.

After leaving school, Pierce Brosnan began looking for work in art galleries, showing his drawings until he was admitted to one: “They gave me a little job, and for me it was like finding the Holy Grail: receiving a check, going to the library on my lunch hour and discover literature… The first book I took off the shelf was Nausea, by Jean-Paul Sartre. And I took it because on the cover it had a beautiful painting, which turned out to be by Salvador Dalí”. For him, the Catalan artist and surrealism are his first references in art. Until acting got in his way.

He studied theater and after participating in several plays and a small role in the cinema, his great opportunity came to him in the United States. It was with the Remington Steele detective series, which she starred in for five seasons (1982-1987) alongside Stephanie Zimbalist.

“I finally had money, and I could buy paints, canvases, brushes… but I was working so much that I didn’t have time to paint,” he explains in the documentary. Brosnan enjoyed success and happiness with Cassandra Harris, the Australian actress whom he married in 1980. The couple had Sean (1983), and 3 years later the actor adopted Christopher and Charlotte, his wife’s two children. and her ex-husband, who passed away in 1986.

But in 1987, his wife was diagnosed with ovarian cancer and one night of “fear and anguish”, he returned to painting. “It was pure intuition and feeling. I thought I could get all that darkness out of me. It was therapeutic, and it still is to this day!” That night he created A dark night, which he considers to be his first painting.

Cassandra Harris passed away in 1991 and the actor with three children relived his childhood without his father, although in his case it was because he left. In 1994 he met journalist Keely Shaye Brosnan. They married in 2001, after having two children Dylan, in 1997, and in 2001 to Paris, who is also a painter and has just graduated in film. Together with his second wife, the actor became a star thanks to the four films in which he has played James Bond and other titles such as The Secret of Thomas Crown, The Tailor of Panama or Mamma Mia! .

Personal happiness was clouded in 2013 with the death of his daughter Charlotte, also due to ovarian cancer, like her mother, and with Christopher’s addiction problems.

Brosnan faces the 70s as the grandfather of Isabella and Lucas (from Charlotte) and Marley and Jason (from his son Sean) and proud of his two young children, who are also two sought-after models. But above all, he lives on a perpetual honeymoon with his wife, to whom he always dedicates romantic and thankful phrases. “She always believed in me,” he says in the documentary about his facet as a painter. I thought my art had no interest, outside of myself, my family and friends, but she encouraged me to get it out into the world.”