(Photo: Sally Gooding)

I grew up in La Paz, Bolivia until, at the age of twelve, my family moved to Whitehorse, Yukon in Canada. I had my first painting lessons with artist Sherry Takala in Haines, Alaska.

At the age of 17 I moved back to La Paz and started attending the Academy of Art "Hernando Siles" and later enrolled in the Fine Arts program at Universidad Mayor de San Andres.

Halfway through my studies I once again moved to Whitehorse and eventually found my way to Victoria, BC, enrolled in the Visual Arts program at the University of Victoria, and obtained my BFA double majoring in Visual Arts and History of Art.

Further studies include attending the former Art Academy of Vancouver and Langara College, and later I studied under Juliette Aristides both at the Gage academy of Art in Seattle W.A. and through the Aristides Classical Atelier.  

I have exhibited and taught drawing and painting classes in Bolivia and Canada.

Through all my travels and in my imperfect relationship with God I have found my Catholic faith to be the source of strength and consolation. It has also provided me with a rich resource of reading and visual materials that manifest in my artwork in one form or another.

I believe that my work is an extension of my life and faith experiences, however weak or strong the latter may be in different seasons of my life. There is no separation between the two as to distinguish one would diminish the other.