Maria Cecilia Fernandez De Arrospide

I am Maria Cecilia Fernández de Arróspide, peruvian, I live in Lima, Perú, nearby the ocean.

From my early childhood I have been in contact with art, museums, books, and so on. I started drawing and painting with pastels, much like impressionists, especially Degas.


My main inspiration in nature and its colors, my driving force, I would say like Rilke, is a need to express myself, to enjoy colors, it is a passion for me. I have learned to respect my creative process where sometimes I do not feel inspired to paint and I just draw or do some collage until I feel ready to begin again.


Mainly I do abstract painting where color is the main subject, sometimes I use very bright colors and then I need to use more quiet colors. Inspired in flowers, skies or the ocean, my paintings have an aereal athmosphere. The series I am working on now is called "Reflections" Mostly dyptics where one has architectural references and the other flower references, joined by the same color scheme. I also work on collage, which I enjoy very much the fact that I find special relations between the elements forming a more surreal composition. Same as in drawings. When I draw i let the ideas go out without any purpose or control, then I decide whi...

Cecilia studied Social Studies and Literature at Universidad Catolica del Peru, Drawing with Cristina Galvez, Watercolors with Juan Pastorelli. She then worked with Leslie Lee, present Director of the Escuela de Bellas Artes del Peru, and Miguel Nieri, professor of the Escuela de Bellas Artes del Peru and now of the Fine Arts Faculty of Universidad Catolica del Peru for more than 15 years.

Cecilia presented many collective exhibitions since 1993 in Peru, USA, Canada, Belgium, Netherlands, Argentina and Spain.
Her first's solo exhibition was in 1998, accumulating up to date six, the second one in 2000 and two in the year 2005, of which one was in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In february 2007 she presented "El Mar, Las Olas" and in december 2008 "De Siluetas y Sombrillas". In August 2010 she presented "Espacios Temporales" y en November 2011 "Metaforas".
In 2014 she was part of the exhibition "Leonardo meets Canova" at L'Agostiniana gallery in Rome,Italy


Today Cecilia's work is on private collections in USA, Colombia, Netherlands, Great Britain ,Belgium, Guatemala and Peru.
and her work is selected on many art yearbooks around the globe.