Artist Statement

My works emerge from strong passions
about the issues of my time.
I enjoy and use life as my expressionistic classroom.
My life in South  America and Europe (I had to leave Peru for to living in Belgium): this has had a powerful influence on my understanding and seeing how different peoples and atmospheres combined with new surroundings it create fantastic changing colour palettes.
I can almost feel colours and I am inspired to translate this sensation.

I grew up between the Peruvian coast,
the little towns of the Andes
Mountains and Peruvian Amazonian jungle.

Peru is the country where I was born
In Peru has to live together a different peoples, languages, and species diversity rain forest mammals,
birds and reptiles.
My life in at rain forest cannot be compared

 with other which has helped create the beginnings my
bright vivid colour choices.
I enjoy diving and sailing in the clear waters of the Pacific Ocean and in the grey waters of the
NorthAtlanticsOcean too.

I hope my paintings take you to the peoples and places of their inspiration and I've been trying to
use my art to call public attention to the gaps between
human ideals and human realities. 

                                                           Leonor Villagra