Born in Nicaragua but living most of my life in San Francisco, California, I am now a retired engineer with a passion and aptitude for fine art. From a very young age I had a passion for conflicting interests — numbers and science on the one hand, colors, drawing, cartoons, manual crafts, the stage, and poetry on the other. I can still see myself during primary school as though I were two different kids, one studying math, biology, history, geography, grammar, physics and chemistry with great joy; and the other one passionately excited because he was going to be directing and acting in a school play or dance; or writing poetry to read in front of an audience. All this, along with drawing, cartoons, my manual artwork, were the things that balanced the math and science kid.

I don’t have any formal training in the visual arts, all I know is self-taught. My works are my artistic interpretation of those instances that are constantly becoming a past, the experiences I share with the surrounding environment — tangible and intangible — and manifest in dreams, visions, and in my perception of the world around me. My intention is to represent creatively my intimate emotional experiences, my demons and my angels, my desires and my fears, hoping to induce the viewer to reflect upon their own experiences.

My creative process starts with an idea that I allow to mature in my head for a few minutes or sometimes days. Then, it goes into a rough sketch on paper, and at that point I decide, depending on its complexity, whether my final work can be painted on paper or canvas using traditional mediums like acrylic paints, graphite pencils, charcoal or a modern digital technology like Giclée prints. My early works were digitally painted using painting computer applications and then rendered as a Giclée print on canvas. My latest works are a combination of digital and traditional painting.