Statement
I am a visual artist originally from Chile, currently living in San Francisco, California. My studio practice is always mutating, allowing new inspiration and life events to impact on it.
My artwork serves as an exploration of self-awareness, a journey that unfolds through the process of painting. Nature stands as a source of inspiration, influencing the very essence of my creations. Within the canvas, I strive to build a convergence of painting, nature, and mental well-being. At the heart of my art lies an intimate and personal lens through which I navigate and process thoughts and emotions in relation with my connection to the world, people, the environment, and my own being.
To convey these different sources of inspiration, I intertwine elements from the tangible world, drawing upon the forest vegetation, flowers, and other natural references, with the possibilities of abstraction. The outcome is a series of paintings where an expressive language comes alive through a vast spectrum of colors, where blending the real and the abstract gives birth to paintings that show a free-flowing rythm and an extensive range of atmospheres.
Some themes have become a recurrent in my work, such as motherhood, immigration, and grief – particularly in relation to experiences such as infertility and miscarriage.
Above all, my art serves as a representation of the healing process, an allegory for contemplating mental well-being. Some of my actions in painting symbolize therapeutical stages. For instance, the act of erasing an area echoes the impulse to deny reality or the courage to embrace fresh beginnings after enduring hardships, much like a storm reshapes a landscape. Like that, I compare the different speeds and approaches to my painting to the mind ones when we are dealing with positive and negative responses to things. I am intrigued by the resilience inherent in nature and by using some of its forms I seek to juxtapose it with the growth and transformation of one's own spirit. The canvas is the support to sustain that seek.
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