Vig Mayol brings a luminous energy to everything she paints. Born in Buenos Aires and now based in Sarasota, Vig has made a name for herself with expressive works that blend abstraction and figuration in ways that feel both intimate and powerful. Her paintings often feature women surrounded by water — a theme that captures movement, transformation, and the beauty of rebirth. Collectors are drawn to the way she layers color and form, creating pieces that feel alive, shifting with the light like reflections on the surface of a tide pool. Her journey is as inspiring as her art. After studying visual arts at the University of the Arts in Buenos Aires, Vig brought her practice to Florida where she now teaches at the Sarasota Art Museum, part of Ringling College of Art and Design. Along the way she has captivated audiences with a live painting demonstration at the Tampa Museum of Art, showcased her work at the celebrated Kips Bay Decorator Show House, and even collaborated with Serena & Lily, where her paintings found a home among high-end interiors. She also brought her distinctive style to the literary world, illustrating the cover of Jesse Sutanto’s Next Time Will Be Our Time, published by Penguin Random House. Collectors admire her not just for her accolades — like winning the Art Battle Regional Championship representing Florida — but for the way her paintings carry a sense of rhythm and resilience. Each work feels like a reminder of life’s fluidity, constantly shifting yet endlessly connected. Today, her pieces are part of both public and private collections in the United States and Argentina, cementing her as an artist with an international voice rooted in the Gulf Coast. Artist Statement:Water is more than a subject in my paintings — it is a language. To me, it represents rhythm, transformation, and the unseen layers of identity. When a figure is submerged, it distorts into fragments of color and light, creating a poetry of abstraction. This fascinates me, because it reflects how we are always shifting, never fixed, always becoming. Painting water is painting movement itself. Each layer of brushstrokes is like a current, pulling the work forward, dissolving shapes only to rebuild them in new ways. My hope is that when someone stands in front of one of my paintings, they feel that same sense of flow, resilience, and quiet power that water has always held for me.