Serie: Moon bathing. Women and plants
This series is inspired in a feeling of calm, tranquility and being with and caring about ourselves. Moon bathing is an ancestral practice of exposing oneself on the light of the moon in an effort to drink in the cooling lunar energy.
In the other hand, The Calathea plants (native to tropical rainforest in South and Central America and the West Indies), symbolise a NEW BEGINNING.
This series is inspired in a feeling of calm, tranquility and being with and caring about ourselves. Moon bathing is an ancestral practice of exposing oneself on the light of the moon in an effort to drink in the cooling lunar energy.
In the other hand, The Calathea plants (native to tropical rainforest in South and Central America and the West Indies), symbolise a NEW BEGINNING.
Moon bathing 3. Woman and Calathea Majestic
Serie: Dance and Music
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Woman Playing Djembe
This painting is inspired in the Divine Feminine in connection with music. Musical, artistic and poetic inspiration was always thought to spring from the Divine Feminine. One of the main techniques for connecting to this power of inspiration was drumming. The drum was the means our ancestors used to summon the goddess and also the instrument through which she spoke. The drumming priestess was the intermediary between divine and human realms. Aligning herself with sacred rhythms, she acted as summoner and transformer, invoking divine energy and transmitting it to the community. |
Djembe is considered an instrument of the soul, that brings peace, understanding and love throughout the world.
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Serie: Contemporary Goddess
Acrylic on canvas
102 x 76 x 4 cm |
Diosa Andina / Andean Goddess, PACHAMAMA
This painting is inspired in Pachamama (Mother Earth), the Supreme Mother and Goddess honored by the indigenous people of the Andes. She is referred to as both the physical planet Earth as well as the universal Feminine Energy in time and space. Her name literally translates as Pacha – meaning world, land, earth, universe; and Mama, meaning Mother. She is the Mother of the World. In Incan mythology Pachamama is also celebrated as a fertility Goddess who oversees planting and harvesting. She is responsible for the well-being of plants and animals... |
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Libertad / Freedom
Libertad is inspired by the hope of a more equal and inclusive society. During the last few years, in several Latin American countries, social movements of Afro-descendants obtained the recognition of important collective rights and forced their states and public opinion to accept the persistence of racism in their respective societies. In order to overcome racial discrimination and the social and political exclusion to which they have been historically subjected, however, there is still a long way to go in the fight for true equality. |
Afro-descendant women have always been the most affected since they are inserted in a complex system of structural discrimination of both race and gender . Linking the fight against racism with overcoming gender discrimination and the search for autonomy for Afro-descendant women requires taking on the great challenges as a society for their individual and collective recognition as subjects of rights.Acrylic on canvas
102 x 76 x 4 cm
102 x 76 x 4 cm
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Weaver woman / Mujer hilandera
Andean woven crafts are an ancient tradition; the 10,000 year-old methods for spinning, dying and weaving these rainbow textiles are kept alive today by the local indigenous women of Peru. A popular method used to create textiles is through a traditional spinning technique; this process requires animals to be sheared and the resulting fibres washed and spun using an ancient drop-spindle tool which creates fine yarn. This process causes the fibres to twist as the weaver spins the apparatus while simultaneously evening out the fibres. |
Women weavings capture both the sacred and everyday symbols of life in the communities in Cusco, they place the stories of their lives into textiles, communicating and preserving important cultural traditions. This is how memories are most vividly remembered.
Weaving of fine textiles and embroidery remains the province of women in Cusco.
As Rozsika Parker in her 1984 book, “The Subversive Stitch: Embroidery and the Making of the Feminine,” “because of its history and associations embroidery evokes and inculcates femininity in the embroiderer. But it can also lead women to an awareness of the extraordinary constraints of femininity, providing at times a means of negotiating them, and at other times provoking the desire to escape.”
Acrylic on canvas
102 x 76 x 4 cm
Weaving of fine textiles and embroidery remains the province of women in Cusco.
As Rozsika Parker in her 1984 book, “The Subversive Stitch: Embroidery and the Making of the Feminine,” “because of its history and associations embroidery evokes and inculcates femininity in the embroiderer. But it can also lead women to an awareness of the extraordinary constraints of femininity, providing at times a means of negotiating them, and at other times provoking the desire to escape.”
Acrylic on canvas
102 x 76 x 4 cm
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Woman with basket of fruits
Antigua market in Guatemala is a bustling place, full of smells and sounds.The Mayan women fruit sellers inspired me for this painting, usually carrying an amazing amount of things in a basket on their heads while wearing beautiful local costume full of embroidery and bright colours... Acrylic on canvas 102 x 76 x 4 cm |
Acrylic on canvas
76 x 56 x 4 cm |
Kichwa Woman
The women of the Indigenous Kichwa Peoples of Sarayaku have played a crucial role in their community’s resistance to attempts to extract the energy wealth hidden in the bowels of their ancestral territory. Always on the front lines of marches, carrying their babies on their backs or in their wombs, the warmis (“women” in Kichwa) have raised their voice to say “No!” to extraction and patriarchy. It is a double struggle for indigenous women of Sarayaku, who are determined to resist both the Ecuadorian State’s attempts to extract oil and the ancestral patriarchy they face in their community. I feel really inspired by these women... |
Acrylic on canvas
102 x 76 x 4 cm. |
Amazonian Defender
“The forest is our mother. The forest is our life and our strength. Women protect the healthy soil and fresh air to protect our children and all life. Now is the time to hear the voices of women to protect the Amazon.”(Cristina Gualinga, Kichwa grandmother from Sarayaku) This artwork celebrates women from the amazon as life-givers, wisdom keepers, and leaders while denouncing violence against women and Mother Earth. |
Across the Amazon, Indigenous women are uniting and organizing in defense of life, rights, and territories while confronting increasing threats. Amazonian women defenders are on the front lines of defense and response to climate emergencies. This is in addition to leading resistance against extractive industries, agribusiness expansion, and government policies that incentivize fires, land-grabbing, and attacks against Earth defenders. Amazonian women defenders are guiding solutions for a better future and call upon all of us to listen to their voices and show our solidarity.
A percentage of the price of this painting is going for the Environmental Organisation of Mujeres Amazónicas.. Haz clic aquí para editar.
A percentage of the price of this painting is going for the Environmental Organisation of Mujeres Amazónicas.. Haz clic aquí para editar.
Serie: Fantasia Andina / Andean Fantasy
The Andean Fantasy series of paintings are inspired by the cultural manifestations of the original Peruvian peoples, especially from the Andean region, as part of a personal research on the symbolic language of textiles and ceramics inherited by our ancestors. These elements are fused in my work with patterns, shapes and colours from the constant exploration of my own narrative expression, and my own identity.
Fantasia Andina 1
Acrylic on canvas 122 x 92 x 4 cm |
Fantasia andina 4
Acrylic on canvas 127 x 102 x 4 cm |
Fantasia andina 5
Acrylic on canvas
122 x 76 x 4 cm
Acrylic on canvas
122 x 76 x 4 cm
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Vinicunca, Rainbow Mountain
Inspired in Vinicunca, (Rainbow Mountain) Cusco-Peru. The first time I saw this mountain I thought I was seeing a gigantic traditional awayo cloth covering the hill with the many colors and tones one next to the other, I imagined it as I have it painted now Acrylic on canvas 102 x 82 x 4 cm |
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Aukasisa
This painting is part of a project where I intend to enhance the figure of the Andean and Latin American women, often submissive and silenced by a society that remains sexist and racist. This woman represents the rebirth of a new empowered woman. Aukasisa (Quechua language) means Warrior flower/Flor Guerrera. Acrylic on canvas 60 x 60 x 4 cm |
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Women sing / Cantan las mujeres
This painting is a tribute to the greatest artist Guayasamin. I feel very inspired by the strength and emotional depth of his artwork. The subject it's been inspired in a poem from Ana Mercedes Pereira Souza. "Women sing in the middle of the night, their song silently becomes a prayer a lament, enough injustice, enough oppression! Women sing in the middle of the night and in their song they express rage and pain, therefore silence, so much forgetting, for everything lost in this atrocious war. |
Their voices like flames illuminate the path, your fatigued steps will no longer stop,
with their dreams united they form a continent, with their tired hands they will reach it.
Women sing in the middle of the night, they sing to the children that the shadow took to all the absentees who gave their lives, and to the lives that hate and hunger killed.
Women sing in the middle of the night, they sing to life, to tenderness, to illusion to dreams that now fly without chains, because also dreaming was forbidden.
Their voices like waterfalls burst into the night, and crystalline sources of freedom sprout, that meet, they merge in hugs and a river of hope, love and peace is born.
And those voices that gestate the future, Even in the middle of the night, nobody will stop them"
Acrylic on canvas
76 x 60 x 4 cm
with their dreams united they form a continent, with their tired hands they will reach it.
Women sing in the middle of the night, they sing to the children that the shadow took to all the absentees who gave their lives, and to the lives that hate and hunger killed.
Women sing in the middle of the night, they sing to life, to tenderness, to illusion to dreams that now fly without chains, because also dreaming was forbidden.
Their voices like waterfalls burst into the night, and crystalline sources of freedom sprout, that meet, they merge in hugs and a river of hope, love and peace is born.
And those voices that gestate the future, Even in the middle of the night, nobody will stop them"
Acrylic on canvas
76 x 60 x 4 cm
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Wild Tina
She has a fiery soul that cannot be tamed. She has free spirit that cannot be maimed. She moves with the wind and flows with the river. She howls at the moon and smiles at the sun. Just when you think she is finished, she declares, “I’ve just begun.” Like wild flowers, she grows where she decides to push through fallow ground. |
Like wild fires, she spreads with speed that can’t be drowned.
She has mystery in her blood, magic in her touch and regardless of her frame
she can be too much-wild woman.
She is not predictable, controllable nor the people pleasing kind.
That’s why she is called wild woman and can never be defined.
Poem Author: Mishi McCoy
Acrylic on canvas
120 x 120 x 4 cm
She has mystery in her blood, magic in her touch and regardless of her frame
she can be too much-wild woman.
She is not predictable, controllable nor the people pleasing kind.
That’s why she is called wild woman and can never be defined.
Poem Author: Mishi McCoy
Acrylic on canvas
120 x 120 x 4 cm
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Ruth Buendia, Ashaninka activist
Ruth Buendía Mestoquiari is a Peruvian activist and the first woman president of an organization which represents the indigenous Asháninka people. She was awarded the 2014 Goldman Environmental Prize for having led a campaign on behalf of the Asháninka people to oppose large-scale dams that would displace indigenous communities and endanger the environment. This painting took part of HERSTORY, San Diego, California. Acrylic on canvas 120 x 95 x 4 |
About HERSTORY: Dance-live music-Art Performance
Inspired by the stories of four contemporary female heroes, Herstory takes the audience through a series of rhythms and sensations, blending a fusion of different styles to offer a powerful show. From the streets of Chicago, to the Peruvian Amazon, to the seas surrounding Syria, these women embody a strength, bravery and resilience worth noting.
Inspired by the stories of four contemporary female heroes, Herstory takes the audience through a series of rhythms and sensations, blending a fusion of different styles to offer a powerful show. From the streets of Chicago, to the Peruvian Amazon, to the seas surrounding Syria, these women embody a strength, bravery and resilience worth noting.
Acrylic on canvas
120 x 100 x 4 cm |
Bajo el Inti / In the Inti (sun)
In the Inti/sun (Tribute to Women from Amantaní Island) it’s almost 6 years since I visited Amantani Island (Lake Titicaca) and I still remember little Ruth, her mother (woman in the left), and her grandma. An island full of women community leaders which I wanted to portray. In this painting they are awaiting the arrival of tourists (us) to which they will host at home for a few days and will share part of their culture |
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Yo también tengo sueños / I have dreams too
This work is inspired by the struggle for rights in a favela in Lima (Villa el Salvador). The small images on the background tell the story of its beginnings, the struggle of women and mothers to give their children something better, the children living in poverty and their families trying to build a home in the middle of a desert area on the outskirts from Lima. The phrase in colorful letters says "I also have dreams" and is painted in the popular style called "cartel chicha" in the favelas (many colors) The "chicha signs" are now starting to be very popular in the Latin American pop art. Spray, Acrylic and collage paper on canvas 114 x 70 x 4 cm |