Cecilia Betancourt

Born and raised in Mexico City, lives and work in the Zurich area, Switzerland.
Fascinated with the new ways of life as she moved to Europe, but attached to her origins, it became a preoccupation and a priority to find a balance, to adapt to her new home without losing the historical and cultural baggage she values so much. Painting is the medium she uses to create for herself a world where she melts the two cultures into one product: herself, her art. She dedicates herself to painting, photography and writing.
Owner of a rich technique, she achieves a basically retinal image. Her characteristic style is a mixture of dreams and realities, a union of colors and textures that have been admired around the world. Her unique paintings reflect states of mind and spirit and are generally filled with a sense of joy at being alive. They suggest that the intangibles of life are quite as real as the tangibles, if one can feel and see them both. It is her dynamism that creates, in a multiplicity of planes, pure poetry with sensible and intelligent touches of color and raw material. It is familiar to a romanticism, somehow melancholic, and even though the design is finished and covered, one can perceive it as sensible, mature and eloquent; as...