I am a Cuban born painter that was raised in Miami. Unlike many other painters I come from a fashion background. I designed for my fashion label for many years in NYC. The nature of that work – sketching, drawing and color – allowed me to grow and develop my language as an artist. That experience coupled with having been raised in the tropics have shaped my perception and use of color. Visual communication is at the core of what I do and painting has served as my medium for most of my life. My work plays the edge between abstraction and representational. Ink sketches within the work depicting leaves, petals, stones loosely reference nature, while the underlying structure and palette remain rooted in abstraction. This contrast between the recognizable and the obscure allows for the viewer to connect with the work on various levels. I presently live and work in Tucson, out of an airy light-filled studio that looks out to the mountains on one side and a sky-blue pool on the other.