About

Greetings and welcome to my online studio/portfolio. I am an artist and graphic designer and I LOVE color. My great grandmother was the famous Taos Pueblo artist Pop Chalee. She taught me to love art and the natural world around me as every living thing was considered sacred. I grew up in the fusion culture of Santa Fe, New Mexico which blended Native, Hispanic and Anglo cultures into a rich tapestry. I was surrounded by cowboy mystics, spiritual mechanics, artists, belly dancers, poker players and grew to love the Western artistic aesthetic. This I weave in my art.

Creatively I have been a costume designer and director, freelance designer, in-house designer in the corporate sector and of course illustrator and artist. I have had solo art shows in San Francisco and Davis, California and I have collectors of my work across the USA.

My strength is being able to take ideas and data and translate them into visual communications and stories. I think about my viewers and their perceptions. I am comfortable with both raw creativity and working in a marketing team environment with the various stakeholders and contributors to a communal project.

Proudly, I am a returned Peace Corps volunteer and served in Bangladesh where I taught English, theatre and computer literacy at an all girls school. My students taught me how to cook Bengali food because prior to that I could only make nachos or spaghetti. My experience there made me realize that anything is possible and I have what it takes to meet challenges creatively in any environment.

Design seems to be in my blood as I am also a certified Permaculture designer and take a personal interest in growing much of my own food and living sustainably, as I try my best to make the planet a better place. I adore bees and hope to one day have a few hives of my own.

I can often be found painting, making something new, trying to learn a new technology, hiking or enjoying a glass of wine in my permaculture garden. Feel free to say hi!

Maya