I am a person who enjoys the simplest things in life - the breeze moving my hair, the sun on my face, a kid’s smile and those minutes in the evening when everything glows in a pale purple just before the sunset.

What inspires me to create my abstract paintings is the beauty I see in simple things – color, textures, patterns and forms. My abstract art does not look for representing something or somewhere instead it looks for making obvious the greatness of simplicity.

To create my artwork and to avoid the flatness of 2D media (as in a canvas painting), I use a mixture of clay dust, sand, glass beads and acrylic polymers.  When mixed together in different proportions and applied with knife on a flat canvas, I can create endless variations of textures and 3D finishes.
                                     Monica Araoz.
                     Contemporary abstract artist