Influences in your art and life:
As long as I can remember, I was always ‘drawing with my eyes’ and by the age of ten I was drawing portraits or anything that was around the house, such as the image of a crucifix that was hanging on a wall of the house we had moved to when we came to the States.

My experiences from Cuba have shaped the way I see my world. For example, there was a huge sculpture of a bull at one of the Sugar Mills that I frequently visited with my father. The sculpture, the countryside and many beautiful images have remained indelible in my mind, later my education in the schools and the universities have influenced me as well.

Yet my mother was my greatest influence by providing me with private lessons in art, guitar and piano and cultivating my love for art. I was also influenced by Cuban instructors who moved to the United States and their lessons mirrored the ’academic’ training they received from the best of the Academia de Bellas Artes; but most of my influence and inspiration comes from my relationship with Nature and God, and it is this reality that never ceases to amaze me, as I continue my journey in experiencing the world of objects and that of my own imagination.

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Showings & Permanent Exhibits: Salon of Contemporary Art in Paris, X Festival of Cuban Painters, Master Pieces for the Millennium, The Prizery, Danville Museum of Fine Arts and History Virginia, Miami-Dade Public Library Cintas Foundation Fellows, Miami/New York, Solo Exhibit, University of South Florida, Art In the Lawn, Danville, Virginia, Solo Exhibit, South of the James, Richmond, Lynchburg Juried Art Show, Danville Art league Juried Show, Convergence Art Guild and The Prizery, Southside Virginia Higher Education, South Boston, Viriginia,

Contact: nzjones@centurylink.net