Geraldina Chacón

A path through different disciplines —but always in touch with art— led Geraldina to what has now become the pillar of her life: an unbounded devotion to painting and writing.

She was born and has lived in Mexico City, fortunate to belong to a family whose passion for travel and culture allowed her to be visually immersed in unforgettable worlds. Beginning with Paris —the city of her soul— where her grandparents once lived: her grandmother, a writer, and her grandfather, a painter and great watercolorist. The Musée d’Orsay opened its doors while Geraldina was spending time in that city, and she does not doubt that she was one of its most frequent visitors. Since then, the Impressionists have followed her throughout her life —or perhaps she has followed them— drawn by their colors, their light, and the radiant strokes of their work. Later, American art, particularly Abstract Expressionism, took its place as a great master before her astonished eyes.

She studied English Literature at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, where she also taught, and earned a master’s degree in Comparative Literature. Later, she studied Drawing, Mixed Techniques, and Botanical Illustration at the Academy of San Carlos. Perhaps it was the desire to create a portrait of her mother and the flowers she so loved that led her to painting. In any case, that’s where it began. She later moved to San Miguel de Allende to join the School of Fine Arts.

Oil painting is her preferred medium. At first, she used it to paint plants and flowers, which gradually transformed into loose leaves and petals, eventually becoming formless color stains.

Today, her main interest lies in color itself —within it, relationships and memories of loved ones, images, or ideas arising from daily life, writing, and reading take shape. “On the canvas, I have the opportunity to arrange a part of my world through color —what matters to me, what I would like not to forget— and, in a way, it can remain captured in a composition that illuminates my life.”