Carmen Benavente

My name is Carmen Benavente Diaz, I am Venezuelan, I was born on September 15, 1968. I grew up in Pedregal, Chacao, state miranda of Venezuela, then I moved during my adolescence to Guarenas, Miranda State. I know how to paint pictures, portraits, sculpting,i am a glazier (profession that is based in cut mirror, and glass by hand), I make ceramic pieces and I know a little bit of sewing and many other things. However my fort is in my well-known ceramic style intervened with mirrors and embedded glass, this also includes my stained glass and mosaics

Since I was little I liked art thanks to my father who was a painter, sculptor, draftsman, shoemaker, and other work, and he instilled in me the love for art. I learned to draw seeing how my father did it.

Although I knew how to draw , i was insecure, whenever I was assigned to make drawings at school I asked to my dad to do them for me, until one day my father told me:

- You must learn to be independent, so you do your drawing.

I started crying at the beginning but, thanks to that, I started to make a drawing, and I succeeded, the drawing was very good. From that moment, i do not stop drawing

My mother also influenced my art. She painted pottery and from her I learned sev...