Santa Elena Canyon Print

My inspiration stems mostly from the landscapes of Big Bend and the desert of Texas and Northern Mexico, but I am also influenced by surrealism, and I consider art as an agent of change in social consciousness. Each painting is a project of months or years of work that begins with a trip and study of the place, and ends in my workshop after adding compositions in skies, plants and rocks to give balance, and before creating a plant on the canvas I like to study them and know them previously, as well as their ecosystem and especially the history and myths of the place, which I try to capture in my works. So beyond trying to reproduce a photographic copy is a composition and recreation of the essence of the place with native plants. My most used technique now is Acrylic on canvas, for practicality, since it dries quickly and allows me mobility, but I have also worked with oil and more frequently watercolors and many drawings for my sketches. Since my arrival in Austin 7 years ago I have painted over 36 artworks that have been exhibited mostly at EAST and WEST Austin Studio tours and other Art Gallery in Austin