Geraldina Chacón

A path through different disciplines led Geraldina to what is now the center of her days: a boundless devotion to painting and writing.

She was born and has lived in Mexico City, in a family whose passion for art and culture allowed her to become visually immersed in unforgettable worlds. The Musée d’Orsay opened while she was spending a season in Paris, and she has no 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 on, American art, especially Abstract Expressionism, took the place of a great master before her amazed eyes.

She studied English Literature and earned a master’s degree in Comparative Literature at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. She later studied Drawing, Mixed Media, and Botanical Illustration at the Academia de San Carlos. Perhaps it was the desire to paint a portrait of her mother and the flowers she so deeply enjoyed that led her to painting. In any case, that is where it began. Later, she arrived in San Miguel de Allende to enroll in the School of Fine Arts.

Oil painting is her preferred technique. At first, she painted plants and flowers, which gradually turned into loose petals and eventually into formless stains. Today, her interest lies mainly in color, texture, and the movement of brushstrokes, through which she seeks to give life to certain memories and to thoughts that arise in everyday life.

“On the canvas I can arrange a part of my world through color—what matters to me, what I would like not to forget.”