Short Bio
Eumelia Castro was born in Venezuela, from a very young age she showed the ability to express herself through drawing. She is graduated in Advertising and Graphic Design, she worked for many years as an illustrator and Art Director in Advertising agencies in Caracas Venezuela. She is a self-taught artist established in the United States since 2002, currently living in Miami Florida, emigrating was a new beginning for She took advantage of it to develop and expand her knowledge and techniques in her painting. Through his work in Advertising he was able to discover different techniques such as watercolor, crayon and marker, which helped her take the leap and experiment with oil and acrylic. Eumelia has developed her own style. She is inspired by nature, the beauty and delicacy of women, she uses different tools in her painting that allow her to create textures, soft and dynamic shapes. Eumelia has successfully exhibited her work in Galleries and Art Fairs in the United States, Belgium, France, Spain, Italy, China and Korea.
Statement
I am a self-taught plastic artist. Painting is a fundamental part of my life. Painting is my meditation
process and allows me to CREATE and grow internally by which I live and vibrate.
After a drastic change in my life I want to break with what I established myself, now I am walking
the path of mixed media abstraction. My work is inspired by the beauty and delicacy of women, by
nature with its soft and sinuous shapes, by its bright colors that form fields within my work as if
they float in space. Each work is my personal reflection. My emotions, my spirituality, spontaneity
and the expression of instinct are present in every work I do. Painting and working without
knowing what the final result of my work will be is a very exciting challenge for me.
I use oil paints, acrylics, oil pastels, different tools on canvas, cardboard and paper. With gestures I
manifest strokes and with textures I obtain soft and drastic shadows on backgrounds in which the
colors mix and blur. The drops and drips that I somehow enclose with sinuous lines as if I were
closing stages and circumstances of my life, extend towards the borders of the painting as if they
were showing me new spaces to discover.
In my work the viewer is free to interpret the meaning. My work is created to spark curiosity. I
want the viewer to experience happiness in an atmosphere of serenity and peace. I believe that
my work is the vehicle that allows me to connect beyond words with people.
Eumelia Castro
