Painting has become my form of communication. It is my most authentic voice, a direct way of expressing what is within me, even before I fully understand it myself. Art is the way I can share emotions, memories, and thoughts that are translated into color and form on a canvas. The work is born from an intimate process where something that once belonged only to me is now offered to others.

I work with expressionist resources, primarily color and organic forms that allow me to release what I feel, what I think, and what I observe, without the need for literal representation. Abstraction allows me to transform my inner world into a visual reality, and that step from thought to image is where I find the greatest joy in the artistic process.

I find my identity in color, in movement, in form, when I paint. Every time I’m in front of the canvas, I cease to be a concrete human figure and become pictorial matter: blue, green, pink. I do not seek to be an example or to convey a universal truth; I just paint to be, to exist within that visual language that represents me more faithfully than words.

I want those who approach it to feel an emotional openness, a positive resonance. I want to invite to connect. I am interested in sharing an optimistic, vital, and generous energy, fostering closeness and empathy. I aspire for the viewer to move beyond being a passive observer and to become integrated into the work, as part of their own nature.

For me, painting is an act of surrender. It is following the impulse of a curve, allowing myself to be carried by an unexpected harmony of colors, breaking forms, and dissolving into a plane that, ideally, never comes to an end.

Solo shows

2022 - “When the Color Speaks”, Santa Ana Country Club, San José, Costa Rica. 
2019 - “Window to the Art”, Public Library of Cartago, Cartago, Costa Rica.

Group shows

2026 - “Open Door”, Artflow Gallery, San José, Costa Rica. 
2026 - “Women’s Voices”, Sol Gallery, Guanacaste, Costa Rica.
2025 - “Live Gesture”, Artflow Gallery,San José, Costa Rica.
2025 - “SeventyXSeventy”, Artflow Gallery, San José, Costa Rica.
2025 - “1,54”, Talentum Gallery, presented by Artflow Gallery, San José, Costa Rica.
2025 - “Lovers Concerto”, Flamingo Marina, Guanacaste, Costa Rica.
2025 - “Jungle Fever”, Sol Gallery, Guanacaste, Costa Rica.
2023 - “Textures of a Logbook”, Artflow Gallery,San José, Costa Rica.
2023 - “We Are 3”, 3Art Gallery, Guanacaste, Costa Rica.
2023 - “3 Art Show”, Center of Joy, Guanacaste, Costa Rica.
2019 - “To Reborn”, Artelugio Gallery, Cartago, Costa Rica.
2019 - “Art Studio”, Artflow Gallery, San José, Costa Rica.
2018 - “Pop-Up Art Show”, Costa Rica Country Club, presentada por Galería Artflow, San José, Costa Rica.
2018 - “Turrialba Cívica”, Pintal, Cartago, Costa Rica.

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