kind words:

some work out in the world:
Uppercase Magazine (Issue 56) – contributing writer & illustrator • Uppercase Magazine (Issue 52) – contributing illustrator
Storm Cellar Magazine – featured artist • Spirituality & Health Magazine – featured artist • Agave Magazine (Vol.3, Issue 2) – featured artist
Cross Connect Magazine – featured artist • 805 Lit Magazine – cover artist • The Tampa Review 42 – contributing illustrator
The Ringling 100 (book) – contributing illustrator • BynBeary - Product design & art direction • Even-N-Odd Coloring Book – contributing illustrator • Editorial Vida (HarperCollins Christian) - Package Design

select clients:
Working Partners UK
Uppercase Magazine
Humanities Tennessee
Spirituality & Health Magazine
Nail Pop LLC
Tupelo Conjure music

kind mentions:
Nashville Scene
Tampa Review (Featured Artist)
Her Campus (Contemporary Hispanic & Latinx Artists)
Sarasota Visual Arts (Ringling Underground)
805  Lit (Vol. 2, Issue 2)

My Story

I’m a mixed-media children’s book and editorial illustrator, writer, and designer. Following a curiosity for working with my hands, I studied fine art before switching to illustration at Ringling College of Art & Design. There I also studied other practices like graphic design and printmaking. My work has been published in magazines across the US and Canada and featured in home decór, packaging, brand designs, and apparel. My art style has become recognized for its color harmony, lovable character designs, and textured warmth.

I’ve had the great honor of exhibiting in celebrated venues such as The Ringling Museum of Art, the international and critically acclaimed SCOPE Miami, and many more. In 2008 I received the Best of Ringling scholarship award for painting.

fun facts
• I mainly listen to rain when I work. It helps me focus due to noise sensitivity. I wrote an article about it in UPPERCASE Issue #56 buy a copy.
• I didn’t speak English until the 6th grade.
• I was my family’s translator for most of my childhood flowing between English and Spanish to advocate for their needs.
• I’m a first-generation immigrant born in Honduras, Central America in a remote mountain town with no modern amenities such as electricity, plumbing, schools, hospitals, etc.
• I started painting at age 15 and I wasn’t very good at all! I practiced every day to be where I am today.
• I wanted to be a poet since 6th grade (Yes, because I could finally read English!) after reading Robert Frost and Edgar Allan Poe for the first time.
• My first piece of writing, a poem about transition, was published when I was eighteen-years-old in an American Poets poetry collection.