ABOUT THE PAINTING:
Luke 2:19 “But Mary kept all these things, and pondered them in her heart.” As a mother I had experience meaningful connections with my children, even before they were born and as a matter of fact even before they were conceived. All of these prophetic thoughts and moments I had kept quietly in a sacred way. My own divine treasure from where I often draw strength. I stand in awe at Mary’s assignment to be the mother of the Lord. I wanted the viewer to look into a mother’s eyes, Mary. The tenderness of her baby, even the Lord Jesus Christ depending on His mother for substance, care and security.

ABOUT THE PROCESS:

I grew up in a small town of Chihuahua, Mexico, growing up I was mainly exposed to religious/catholic art. I have sweet memories of my dad and I walking in the dark basements of cathedrals to look at paintings of Mary and Jesus. After finishing this painting , I noticed the whole process was a compromise between my style and my subconscious and very ingrained ideas of religious art, perhaps that’s what I have been staying away from it all this time, I am grateful for an art community who embraces so many different styles and ideas of what religious and spiritual art looks like it has made me more acceptable of my own art and conflicted aesthetic beliefs.