I paint the spaces between what’s seen and hidden, inherited and chosen, wild and rooted.

My Wildflowers series is an ode to untamed strength. It is focused on beauty that grows where it isn’t expected. I see wildflowers as metaphors for women and immigrants alike: thriving in unpredictable conditions, resisting containment, and blooming anyway.

In She Said, I turn inward to explore the quiet tension between a woman’s inner voice and the face she shows the world. These works hold emotional duality. In the layers of brushwork and vivid colors, you will find the dichotomy between confidence and vulnerability, between silence and assertiveness.

My Rewilding series marks a personal turning point being the transition from a demanding legal career into the creative life that always felt like home base. Before painting full-time, I worked as an immigration attorney—a role that taught me to see complexity and listen for what’s unspoken.

That listening continues in my newest work, where themes of migration, memory, and cultural inheritance surface more directly. In my latest series about my family's immigration story, in one painting, Zafra Dreams, for instance, I revisit my father’s forced labor cutting sugarcane in Cuba. This series illustrates the shared history and memory of Cuban exiles that quietly shaped me and now finds a voice through my paintings. This series is still in process.

Across all my work, I paint people, mostly women, as they really are when they are their authentic selves. In my mind, that authenticity can be described as uncontained, resilient, and becoming. I paint the emotional landscapes we carry from memory to future, from root to bloom. This is also true throughout my portraits where I explore the process of becoming our authentic selves and dropping our outdoor masks.