María Ángeles Fernández Cuesta

María Ángeles Fernández Cuesta (La Pinturitas) (born 1950) is a Spanish self-taught artist known for her ongoing painting work which has transformed the facade of a derelict restaurant in Arguedas, Navarre into a continuously evolving visionary environment.

Life María Ángeles Fernández Cuesta was born in 1950 in Toledo, Spain. She spent her childhood in Toledo until moving with her father to Arguedas. Villagers mockingly called her La Pinturitas because of the extravagant makeup she often covered her face with. She continues to paint as of 2018.

Work María Ángeles Fernández Cuesta began creating works which blended image: people, animals and faces, with text, as a means to express and ease troubling emotions, in 2000 when she was 50 years old. She chose to make her paintings on the exterior walls of a derelict building in Arguedas that was near a busy roadway. Her paintings came to completely cover the walls of the building in bright primary colored paintings that stretch fifty meters.

In 2015 the society "Les Amis de La Pinturitas D'Arguedas", Friends of La Pinturitas of Arguedas, was established in Montauban, France.