About

My career as an artist spans more that three decades. I was born in Asturias, in the north of Spain, I studied Fine Art at the University Complutense of Madrid and the Circulo de Bellas Artes, Parsons School in New York and printmaking at the Robert Blackburn printmaking workshop and at The Arts Students League.

I have lived in New York for the past 33 years. Nine years ago I moved to Beacon, NY to open my studio on Main Street where I create my work.  My work has been recognized and exhibited in both Europe and the United States. I have exhibited extensively in the New York area, including The Cervantes Institute,  Manhattan, The Heckscher Museum, Greenwich Arts Center, The Chase Manhattan Bank, Merrill Lynch and Merrill Lynch Hispanic Heritage at the World Financial Center, the National Association of Women Artists, the Brooklyn Arts Council, The Banco Bilbao Vizcaya to mention a few.

Most notably, my paintings are included in the collections of the Pinacoteca Museum of Art, in Langreo, Spain, and La Nacional Cultural Center in Manhattan. I have an established group of collectors in Mexico, Spain, England, and The United States. In addition, I have exhibited in many public libraries, community arts councils, and educational facilities. 

My work has also been reviewed on many occasions, most notably, The Kosmos Journal, Co-Creating the New Civilization, Lago and The Exodus Paintings by Nancy Roof, NY ,the Fine Art America “Etchings and Solar Plates Today”, the ART-TALK Magazine “The Exodus Paintings” , El Comercio, Asturias en New York  by L. Villacorta, The Hudson Valley Press, by Jennifer Warren, the New York Catalogue review by W. Zimmer, contributing critic for The New York Times, The Rivertowns Enterprise by Judith Doolin Spikes ,the New York “Newsday” from Jonathan Fine, the “Art Speak” by Claude Le Sue ,the “Manhattan Arts” Artists in the 90”s by Marylyn Becker, The Noticias del Mundo, by David Boltano .

  Each of my paintings are made with many layers of materials built up over time, including burlap, clay, oil and acrylic paint, cement, and plaster. In some works I reuse scraps from old paintings, sewing pieces of canvas together to layer my own history. These pieces of canvas represent attachments, a force, connections, and the past. The heavily worked surfaces are sometimes drenched with water or turpentine so the materials melt into each other. My process is similar to archaeology in that it deals with layers of history. I combine images from the past and present to create my own symbolic language. I am attempting to interpret my personal experience within a common visual code.

Improvisation with varied materials has become essential to my process, and I continually explore unusual mediums to create new effects. I am also actively involved in the production of sculptures. Primitive symbols, archetypal images and organic forms inhabit and inform much of the work.