About Me
Everything I am and everything I have done has started to collide in my work as an artist. My deep concern for human suffering and the pursuit to understand it has found ways through the use of metaphors from nature and its expression through painting and writing. I don't choose what I paint, it comes to me as a certainty that it is what I have to do. As I start working on it, it is like a door has opened and a process starts to unfold in various levels that include not only the creation of the artwork itself but a deep meditation about a specific phenomenon and a transformation within myself. Sometimes it takes days and other months or even years and I am usually working in at least four works at the same time.
I was born in Bogotá, Colombia in 1978. From my first memories, I remember asking myself impossible transcendental questions. My favorite subjects were art and religion. I wanted to be good in this life so God would let me design plants and animals after my death. I loved silence, nature, being alone, dancing, drawing, writing and the color white above all others.
I hated schools and never adapted to any of the four I attended. When I graduated I wanted to be an illustrator but that kind of program didn't exist in Colombia. I thought about studying abroad but I was very much in love and I decided to stay. Art was not an option for me at the time. I started studying architecture, changed to law and ended up as a psychologist. I married the love of my life at the age age 23. After graduating, I specialized in family therapy and worked as a therapist for some time, but after ten years studying psychology and working in different fields I realized practicing as a psychologist was not my path.
My husband and I traveled through South America and Africa in a motorhome and when we came back to Colombia we built a boutique hotel in the Coffee Region called Hacienda Bambusa where we made a home for us and our newborn boy. While I ran the hotel, my artist husband looked for opportunities abroad and he eventually was given the chance to work with a gallery in London. In 2012 we moved to London and then to Miami where we finally got established.
For many years I worked with my husband in his studio as his career was having great momentum but I also started to take time to rediscover myself and find my path. Slowly I emerged as a painter and now I finally have the time to pursue it fully. I am also by nature an autodidactic person and I have decided to go along with it and embrace it.
If anything in this little summary of my life sounds easy and seamless, let me tell you... nothing has been easy. Pursuing an artist career at this point in my life is maybe the most difficult challenge I have ever had, but I have no option, if a am not creating I feel like I am dying.