Artist Statement

For me art is an expression of being bicultural and bilingual, and adjusting to different environments as a child.  But it is also an expression of the present as I now live between Peru and the States.  I convey this experience through paintings.

 My painting style is expressive and my subjects are mostly figures and landscapes.  In the figure paintings, I often represent myself and other Latinas, such as “Luz Adentro / Light Within,” a figure based on an old photo from my family.  Or “La Niñera / The Nanny,” in homage to the Black nannies in Peru.  Most of my works are in acrylic paint or paint combined with collage of fabric or paper. 

 My most recent work has focused on landscapes depicting abstractly the beauty of nature.  Virtually everything we cherish -- natural and manmade -- is in danger due to climate change. As Rachel Carson has been reminding us since 1962 in her groundbreaking book Silent Spring, the threat is great and time is perilously short.  This is the object of my work, that we see and recognize that splendor. 

—Rosa Vera