Juan Jaramillo was an artist sui generis in attitude, arguments and purposes. His painting, however, exposes his adherence to the principles of modern art insofar as it breaks with the aesthetic conventions of academicism and develops new expressive possibilities. Painting is not the ultimate goal of his production: beyond his physical appreciation, Jaramillo leads us to glimpse not only a lyrical but also a spiritual intention: the consideration of painting as a practice of the spirit and as a transcendent fact.

This is why it is not easy to place his work within the broad spectrum of trends and movements that this label encompasses. As the art critic and curator Eduardo Serrano states, his work is decidedly abstract and, as such, reminiscent of numerous works and trends, but not in a very orthodox or imminent way. As an expressionist, he does not follow any of the versions of this trend very closely either. Thus, the definition most akin to his work is undoubtedly that of Abstract Expressionism and within this very broad movement: Lyrical Abstractionism. His work is in line with the idea established since Ancient Greece that "painting is silent poetry" and that, between painting and poetry, there is a homology that results in an eminently creative relationship.

His pictorial proposal is focused on spontaneous gestural abstraction, made without previous sketches and based on intuition. Most of his work is part of a great experiment in which the stain and the gesture are fundamental as expressive elements, while the color is more sensitive than mimetic: the marks, traces, textures and transparencies give it a manifest visual appeal and awaken a vehement desire to follow the movements of the painter and assign interpretations that in each person are usually different.

"I feel very happy because my work has now become an instrument of God. Through the paintings, I transmit messages that I know do not come directly from me. I feel happy because, in the midst of all the daily things, God always manifests himself; in what I do, in what I feel, in what I read."