Since I was young I knew that I would spend my life either doing Art or making Music. Luckily my parents fostered those talents with music and art lessons, and by age eighteen, after finishing high school, I started college at the School of Design of the Catholic University in Santiago, Chile. After my first semester I got married, moved to the United States and continued studying Art at UNC Wilmington for two years, taking courses in Art History, Drawing, Painting, Color, Design, and Printmaking.

My love for music led me years later to UNCSA where I finished a degree in Music as a classical guitarist. Upon graduation Wake Forest offered me a teaching position. I began to build the program in guitar and I continued at UNCG to finish a Masters degree in Performance. Even though I gave most of my time to performing and teaching music, I never left Art. I spent time auditing courses in Drawing and Printmaking at Wake Forest, and exhibited my work in Winston Salem, Greensboro, and Asheville.

My inspiration comes from nature; I love to explore the wonders of little things that intrigue me, like mushrooms. I have a series on fungi based on photos and sketches I’ve made of the species that exist in our community of Winston Salem, mostly found at the Reynolda House Park Estate.

I work with a variety of media and techniques, and I love to draw the human figure. I honor abstraction since it frees me form the conventional themes and gives me a chance to test myself in uncertainty.

I am still engaged in part time teaching as a retired professor at Wake Forest, and I feel blessed to have Music and Art adding meaning to my life, and expanding my dedication to teaching, while raising awareness of the Arts in our community.