Bio
Chilean artist, muralist - wall painter - and illustrator based in Burgenland since 2010.
About me
It took me many years of studies in a crazy city with 9 million people, a few years abroad in a city with 22 millions souls and Tequila, and a 10.600 kilometres world trip to finally find myself– and apparently forever – working and living in a beautiful Schloss in the middle of nowhere in the sunny Südburgenland. A place where from the very beginning was confronted with fact that I’ve become suddenly in some kind of latin american colorful alien in the middle of the Blaufränkisch wineyards.
It took a while till the people got used to see me and accept me. It took a long while until I learned the language. In this environment I had to invent a new „me“ and try to make the best out of it. Considering that I can’t stay calm I took my first step: introduce myself to a local artist and say: „I am an artist and I want to work with you. Teach me how to do what you do.“ That’s how I met my Master, my Sensei: Norbert Art-Uro (located in Neuberg im Burgenland - www.art-uro.at ). And so was how I became a mural painter.
From huges cities to tinny villages. From a beautiful tidy family home to a place on my own under my own rules. From holding for years a tiny small pinsel on a canvas to huge brushes on giant surfaces. That’s how suddenly I became a „Bipolar artist“: The tough woman who does huge physical effort on a wall, but at the same time the delicate one with a sweet small pinsel who paints women with colorful symmetrical or floral patterns.
About my work
Consequently, my work hast two sides: Commissioned Mural Paintings – mostly costumer preferences – but since a couple of years starting to develop to my own designs. Big physical effort. Very hard work. Little time for private life. A lot of ups and downs on the scaffold. Standing for weeks in the cold and rain many meters away from the floor. Always dirty. Little sleep. A lot of shouting. Standing permanently many sexist (I work only surrounded by men) and racist comments.
At the same time and since a couple of years my own work on canvas is a representation of myself. Of my own story through the illustration of unknown women. Is kind of a biographical development as an answer to the traditional role of women who are supposed to have mainly a silent and helpful family role. My painting says „I can be and do more than that“.
That it is what I do: painted illustrations of this very personal self development on a canvas. At the beginning a woman hidden behind a book or a flower. Pretty shy. Not very daring. And lately very confrontational women looking directly at the viewer. Women who dare to rise and show their real attitudes through the use of colour and patterns based on my undenieable cultural background - the use of fashion as a real representational tool of oneself.
Why do I paint strong colorful women? Because I didn't have another option!
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