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"Corazones Valientes" Campesina Women Painters - Arenal Volcano/La Fortuna, Costa Rica
$380.00
Code: CRFA051
Size: 23" x 28 1/2" (58 x 73 cms)
The medium of this painting is acrylics on heavyweight paper. In the mid-eighties, a Peace Corps volunteer, while working with country women near Arenal Volcano, Costa Rica, aside from agricultural projects involving these local women, it soon became obvious that many had incipient drawing and painting talent that they wanted to explore and develop.
Thus, a women's painting collective formed - they called themselves "Corazones Valientes" (the "Brave Hearts" in English). This group of motivated agriculturalist women even showed their works in a celebrated exhibition in Minneapolis and soon after, had a bilingual children's book published in the U.S., "Tortillas and Lullabies", illustrated by the women in this painters' group.
Mostly their works are acrylic on paper and sometimes canvas, the subject matter being scenes from their daily life and perspective through their lens in their endearing self-taught painting style. The original members of this painters' collective are now getting on, and many are grandmothers who have taught and inspired their own daughters to express themselves through painting.
Size: 23" x 28 1/2" (58 x 73 cms)
The medium of this painting is acrylics on heavyweight paper. In the mid-eighties, a Peace Corps volunteer, while working with country women near Arenal Volcano, Costa Rica, aside from agricultural projects involving these local women, it soon became obvious that many had incipient drawing and painting talent that they wanted to explore and develop.
Thus, a women's painting collective formed - they called themselves "Corazones Valientes" (the "Brave Hearts" in English). This group of motivated agriculturalist women even showed their works in a celebrated exhibition in Minneapolis and soon after, had a bilingual children's book published in the U.S., "Tortillas and Lullabies", illustrated by the women in this painters' group.
Mostly their works are acrylic on paper and sometimes canvas, the subject matter being scenes from their daily life and perspective through their lens in their endearing self-taught painting style. The original members of this painters' collective are now getting on, and many are grandmothers who have taught and inspired their own daughters to express themselves through painting.