The Joyous Sculpture

YOLANDA INIGUEZ SNYDER was born in Mexico City in 1950. She studied Social Science and Foreign Languages at Motolinia Universidad, and subsequently Montessori education in Lake Como, Italy. At the same time she became interested in the plastic arts. She studied first in Mexico and continued in Barcelona, Spain for three years. From there she moved to Oxford, England where she studied sculpture with Kostek Wojnarowsky for seven years. During that time she participated in individual and group exhibitions, and became an active member of the Oxford Art Society. Afterwards she moved to Nottingham, England, where she continued her artistic production with varied pictoric and sculpture creations, and was a member of the selection comitee of the Department of Fine Arts of the university of Nottinghan. When Yolanda returned to Mexico she became a founding member of the Watercolor Artists of Morelos. She presently resides in Cuernavaca, where in 2006 she designed the 2x14 meter mural "Despertar en Primavera" in the Acapatzingo Park, done in bizantine mosaic, which merited being included in the book "Mosaics in Mexico", edited by Artes de Mexico. In 2007, 2008 and 2010, 2012, 2013, she was awarded with the Premio Firenze "Mario Conti" and became a member of the Cultural Center Firenze-Europa, Florence, Italy. In 2008 her paintings were selected fot the permanent collection of the Château des Reaux, Sur la Loire, in France. Yolanda Iniguez has two married daughters and she works both in Cuernavaca and in Mexico City. Yolanda Iniguez Snyder