I am a Canadian artist born in Montreal and currently living and working in Jaffray, British Columbia. All children excel at painting and drawing and I was one of them, but I somehow despite myself continued using paint and pencils as a means of communication. I honed my visual and technical skills at the Toronto Academy of Realist Art and later at the University of Toronto where I acquired a BA Hons in visual studies and art history.
In 2001 I travelled to Santiniketan, India, to study ancient Indian art and culture at the Viswa Bharati University founded by the Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore.

I work with paint, gold leaf, thread and fabric, translating and adapting into my own visual language the forms and shapes that I encounter in the mountain, river, bird, season of everyday. I also look to my dreams as a wellspring of imagery I like to draw from. 

 

Exhibitions:
Solo show “Seeds”, United Nations, NY. 2006
Solo show “First Light”, United Nations, NY. 2004

 

Publications:
Caracol by Maricarmen Mendoza. Published by Nostra Ediciones, 2008

Peaceful Visions, stamp series issued by the United Nations Postal Administration in 2007

El Àrbol de la Esperanza by Carmen Carballo Basadre, published by Colección Miscelánea, 2005