Hejsan! I’m a nurse from Honduras living in Skåne.

Unlike many others on this platform, I haven’t had any formal art training. It was actually my grandfather who taught me how to draw, using old newspapers. He would sit down with me and show me how to sketch objects using the cross technique, where you divide an image into quadrants and try to draw exactly what’s in each one.

He was quite good at portraits, and he even won half a scholarship when he was younger to pursue art. But unfortunately, his family couldn’t afford the rest, so he had to do what many people in his situation did: learn a trade that would feed him and his family. After all, we were born in a Low Middle Income Country (LMIC). So, he became a train operator for the Standard Fruit Company. He was also a surprisingly good seamster, he had such an eye for detail and design. He always wondered what might’ve happened if he had pursued that path.

That’s how I started drawing, and how my curiosity for art began. Unfortunately, after he passed away in 2013, I didn’t feel much meaning in continuing to paint or improve, so I stopped. Years later, when I moved to Sweden in 2022 after finishing a Master’s in Public Health, my lovely sambo, Oscar, gifted me easels and painting materials as a graduation present.

It’s been tricky, to say the least, to get back into it: the discipline it takes, the memories it brings back of painting with my abuelito, the frustration of constantly making mistakes while trying to remember how shading and perspective work. But lately, it’s starting to feel better… and look better. And I hope to keep improving, so I can pass on some of the same little “tricks” I got to my future kids, and of course, add some of my own.

This gallery represents me on a personal and professional note. There are feelings here that span a range of emotions, and some pieces that are just plain silly, because that’s life. It’s a roller coaster of events where sometimes you win and sometimes you lose, sometimes both at the same time.

I hope this gives you a little glimpse of who I am and what my art means to me.
Enjoy! Salud!

If any of these pieces speak to you and you’d like to see them on your wall, please feel free to reach out for pricing and availability.