I hold a masters degree in visual arts with emphasis on plastic arts from javeriana University. I got to sculpture through painting. It all started with the smell of turpentine when I played at my grand-mother’s house. I used to play and paint, paint and play. Both things were one and the same to me.

As a teenager, the world was figurative. I used to paint apples, pears. I made patterns using solid colors. I tried to copy Magritte’s brush strokes, and sometimes I ventured into more abstract artists like Kandinsky. I wanted to paint well. That was my dream. I decided to go to Italy to study Fine Arts in Florence and then I took independent courses with artists in Rome. I discovered engraving and that I could make it tridimensional by modifying it with pressed cardboard.

Still with the idea of being a painter, an abstract one, I returned to Colombia. I enrolled in the faculty of Visual Arts at Javeriana University in Bogota. My stroke was thick, not delicate at all. If some other classmates were wrist painters, I was an arm painter with large strokes that forced me to use my whole body. I started to experiment with textures, to play the gesture, to use sand, acrylic spheres, clothing and other materials that would allow me to give volume to the canvas.

 When I was in third semester, I discovered the work of American artists Richard Serra and Frank Gehry. Thanks to them, and to Colombian sculptors Eduardo Ramírez Villamizar and Edgar Negret, a new path opened before me, one that I am still travelling through and transforming: that of sculpture. 

 In those three years I developed a profound vocation for the material that was reinforced with workshops at the School of Arts and Crafts in Bogotá. I started with wood and then used copper and bronze. I ended up with steel. I have learned to tame it. To turn it into a vehicle to express fragility.

 I recently participated in one of the largest exhibitions of contemporary art in Europe: Nordart, in Büdelsford, Germany.