Family

Landscape 18, 2007

I very often use pictures of my children and husband in my paintings. Painting them make me feel very close to them, or maybe it is because they inspire me that I enjoy so much working on images of them.

I juxtapose them with elements of nature, very often deserts: scorched landscapes, cacti, rocks... I try to reach for the limit where a face is still recognizable, but with only very few details.

In Landscape 18, for example, I used a picture of one of my sons and a picture I took of the Anza Borrego desert.