My paintings, drawings, and monoprints derive from the landscape. Places and experiences take on significant meaning: Vermont’s landscape in all its seasons, the tides on the coast of Maine, or travels with my sister and family. The artwork is not about specific places but about significant moments that ignite a feeling of being alive in the space. The formal structures of nature directly experienced or recalled give my work the solid foundation upon which I improvise abstractions. My personal experiences in nature are realized in the medium of the paint. And the intensity of emotion is physically put forth through the movement/marks of the paint.

My paintings move back and forth between figurative landscape and abstraction. My artwork invokes many emotions during the process, similar to how music can invoke a plethora and continuum of raw emotions.

I am a third-generation Mexican American. I spent most of my youth growing up in the suburbs of Houston, Texas. I enjoyed spending summers at the local swimming pool and going on family vacations to South Padre Island. I received an MFA from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, LA, and a BFA from Texas Woman’s University in Denton, TX. My artwork has been exhibited nationally since 1989. Most recently, my paintings were shown in Mountain at Collioure, organized by Jared Quinton, and in 2019 in Made in Vermont, at the Hall Art Foundation. In addition, the artwork is part of many private and public collections. I was the featured artist in the publication of Iterant, Quarterly Poetry and Art, spring issue 2023. I began working as a VSC staff artist in 1995. I had been the School Arts Coordinator for the Vermont Studio Center (VSC) for twenty years in partnership with Johnson Elementary School. As a teaching artist, I have created, organized, and developed a successful school art program to allow these children to express themselves artistically. I live in Northern Vermont; I spend my time painting, teaching, running, and taking endless walks.

Studio - December 2016, photo by Warren Buckles