IMAGINE

But this didn't stop me. Throughout my school and university years, where I studied and finished the career of Social Anthropology at The Universidad Iberoamericana in México City, I continued painting. I became a researcher and teacher, I did long fieldworks in different regions of Mexico, I wrote a book; later on, I married and raised two children, was a housewife and a mother, but I never abandoned my dream. I painted still lifes, landscapes, the portraits of my children, the traditional  feasts of my country, the markets of Mexico, architectural motives that catched my eye...

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At the same time, I was attracted to observe and carefully study the works of the old masters. With the loving support of my family (my parents, grandmother, aunts and uncles and, above all, of my late husband), I began to form a marvellous collection of art books, which became a part of me until this day. Rembrandt, Dürer, Raphael, Kaspar David Friedrich, Turner, Botticelli, Vermeer, El Greco, Velázquez, Monet, Cézanne... each and everyone of them was a guide for me, a mirror where I searched for beauty, perfection and my own identity.

My first media were the most simple ones: pencil and charcoal, then watercolors and pastels. Oil painting came later, when I realized that I needed to learn a more sophisticated language to express myself, a proffessional teacher who would introduce me into the secrets and theory of such an admirable and difficult technique. This teacher, fundamental for my Art education, is Lenin Rojo. At this point, I became aware that it was important to explore the human forms and anatomy, so I attended for years a Workshop of live Nude Drawing. How important would this be! To cultivate the art of painting cannot consist only of idealism and romantic elements, but there has to be a rooting in the praxis of the real, physical world, a scientific dimension. Among other things, this is what I learned from the Nude studies. Then came the observation of the expressions of a face, the deepness of a landscape, the chromatic behaviour of colors, the composition, the contrasts of light and dark, of cold and warm tones, the transparency and opacity of pigments... a whole world of knowledge that can only be attained by long years of experience.

To complement my formation, I attended other classes , like for example the workshop "Outdoor Portrait Painting", with Professor Cedric Egelis of Cape Cod, US.A. He taught me how to handle a palette knife. I followed a Japanese calligraphy course with the painter Kunio  Iesumi. And more recently, I learned the technique of the egg tempera and the application of gold and silver leaf with Alicia Wiechers, who introduced me into the detailed and complex world of the Byzantine icons and the Renaissance methods of Fra Angelico and Botticelli.

At this point in my life, my interests had expanded, painting more subtle themes like religious images, angels or mythological figures. And then one day I found myself portraying imaginary representations of songs that touched my soul somehow. The first song that I made a painting of was "Alfonsina y el Mar", composed by Ariel Ramirez and Félix Luna. It tells about the inner world of the Argentinian poet Alfonsina Storny, which I shared deeply at that certain moment in my life.  I am an incurable romantic.