Women and the forces of nature that surround them are my main inspiration. I want to illustrate a woman who is simple, strong and full of powers.
Powers of creation, of fertility of spirit and body, and magical powers…
Aren’t we all, from near or from far, witches ?!
I have been painting for five years, restlessly and enthusiastically.
My approach is not an intellectual one, but rather an expressive and in accordance with my natural impulses. I am a self taught artist, and I draw my inspirations from the heart of my travels and also from the heart of the forest where I live…
The themes I tackle in my paintings speak of women in perpetual creation, as I am part of these women. Women rooted but moving on foreign, fertile and red earth, women governed and caressed by full or crescent moons, who drinkwater from life bearing rivers. Women who feed and heal themselves with the plants born from their seeds…
My paintings are for me a way to honor the richness of the first peoples of this earth.
The women and the colors that give me inspiration for life and consequently for creation, I have seen and felt them among other things in my travels to Latin America. They have taught me a lot about life and the importance of creation, simply by being who they are, courageaous and supportive towards one another and at the same time free and naïve in their movements and their being. They continue to live at the tip of my brushes and are born of the spontaneous, infinite and almost childish admiration I devote to them…
The South lives in my heart with its colors and its playful and naïve people, and this, even if I Live in North America.
I am surrounded by forests, mountains, animals and a river that gives its rhythm to my life.
Virgini, march 2002
