At Rest On The Skin Of The Ocean by Luis Bayonas

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Artist: Luis Bayonas



ARTIST BIO

Luis Bayonas is a film-maker, a painter, a musician and an award winning screenwriter for films and television.

Born in Madrid during the Spanish civil war, Bayonas spent his childhood studying music at conservatoriums in Madrid and Barcelona, went to art school in Madrid and at the age of 14 was painting portraits for American GI’s to support his studies, got a job in the art department of a film studio and that was the start of his film career at a time when Spain was the prized location  for American westerns and epic co-productions.   Did crew work at first, from Runner to 1st Assistant Director and 2nd Unit Director and later as a screenwriter.  He worked on over 20 feature films and wrote or co-wrote the screenplays for five, including “Mission Lisboa”, “Cauldron of Blood” with Boris Karloff, “Madigan’s Million” with Dustin Hoffman, worked with directors Orson Welles, Ken Annekin, Sergio Leone and Richard Rush. 

In the early 1970s Hector Crawford invited Bayonas toAustraliato write for “Homicide”,  a new TV series, where he introduced comedy into the show.  Luis spent the next 25 years writing for many iconic Australian television series  (“A Country Practice”, “Division 4”, “Bellamy”, “Matlock Police”, “The Flying Doctors”, “Special Squad”, “GP”, amongst others), two telemovies and the teleplay “A Woman in the House”.    

In the mid 90s  Bayonas took up painting again, had his first solo exhibition in theBathurstRegionalArtGalleryfollowed by seven solo exhibitions in Sydney and Melbourne.  In 2004 he bought a professional camera and decided to make his own movie,  with the help of a community:  “Dancing Cows”, his first feature film as director-writer-producer-editor-camera operator. Completed in 2011 and premiered and screened in local theatres, "Dancing Cows" sold out every time.  DC is now waiting for distribution. 

“Dancing Cows” was followed by “Adios”, another feature film starring John Waters, with Luis writing, directing, producing and editing - now in postproduction stages.   

When asked whether he is a filmmaker who paints or a painter who makes movies, Bayonas says:  who cares, I do what I do because I need to do it and that’s all there is to it. 

 Right now Luis is finishing editing and writing the music for “Adios” after his recent art exhibition “1st Drafts for Fifteen Movies” in Collingwood, Melbourne.