Creativity

Honoring Inner Strength

By Karl Cole, posted on May 17, 2024

Rosa Ibarra is a Puerto Rican painter of people and portraits, mostly of women and children. She is inspired most by innocuous aspects of humanity: a gesture, a contemplative moment, a radiation of strength, or a quiet moment of connection between two people. Her imagery is made powerful by her attention to intimate details, and even more powerful by her used of mixed media to build up the richness of her surfaces and colors.

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