CURRENT MISSION

Travel, make new friends, spirit quest, you know... the usual.

ABOUT ME

Hola.

I'm a painter, illustrator and art teacher. I specialize in colorful, textured, folk stylized portraits in oils on oak but also love to draw and I really love to teach art.

I used to be a little punk rock girl when I was enjoying my wasted youth and have various scars and tattoos to prove it.

I love swimming in rivers, exploring beautiful landscapes, snorkeling, kayaking, canoeing, hiking, forests, biking, traveling, naturalist culture. I'm a bit of a Pantheist and I meditate when I run and I run a lot.

I'm a morning person, I love to be out in the morning sun but I also enjoy staying up all night under the right circumstances.

I am mostly vegetarian.

Interests

Ayurvedic medicine, oil painting, nature, adventure, hiking, backpacking, national forests that I want to visit, working out, yoga. Health in general, being relaxed and content, friendships, other cultures, anthropology, archaeology, Texas rivers, sustainable living, living off the grid, traveling, psychology, music and maintaining a sense of humor.

• arts
• culture
• tattoos
• vegetarian
• yoga
• running
• working out
• meditation
• traveling
• painting
• drawing
• music
• cycling
• hiking
• backpacking
• canoeing
• kayaking
• snorkeling
• swimming
• animation
• anthropology
• teaching
• medicine
• psychology
• rivers

Music, Movies, and Books

I love to read... Post Office, Factotum, Ham on Rye, Pulp, The Days Run Away like Wild Horses over the Hills, anything by Bukowski (he is my all time favorite author and I collect his works), Apocalypse Culture, Kahlil Gibrans The Prophet, Saul Williams, Catcher in the Rye, Burroughs, H. S. Thompson, Lord of the Flies, A Confederacy of Dunces, My Side of the Mountain, Hatchet, Cats Eye by Margaret Atwood, artists biographies, The Martian Chronicles, I Never Promised you a Rose Garden, Cut, The Teachings of Don Juan, Bhagavad-Gita, So Far From God, Child of God, Cosmic Consciousness, Stranger on Earth, Juxtapoz Magazine, Sula, The Bluest Eye, The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill, anything by Cormac McCarthy or Toni Morrison, Ana Castillo, Love and Rockets, Dori Stories, Last Gasp Comics and Fantagraphics, The Archies, Into the Wild, Calvin and Hobbes, The Tao of Teaching,

Countries I’ve Visited

Germany, Italy, Mexico

Countries I’ve Lived In

Mexico, United States