I am a Mexican-born visual artist and art historian based in Finland. My practice explores personal experiences and emotional states through painting and drawing. Rather than adhering to a fixed technique, I approach materials intuitively, choosing the medium that best serves each idea. In recent years, my work has focused primarily on oil painting, acrylics, and soft pastels.

The worlds I create are emotionally charged and multifaceted, rooted in lived experience while equally shaped by my inner life. A sense of theatricality often emerges through staging, composition, and the use of light. Many of my works unfold as visual narratives, making storytelling a central element of my practice.

Recurring themes in my work include femininity, motherhood, childhood, and family life. Through these subjects, I seek to explore the complexity of human life, where melancholy, humour, joy, pain, and beauty coexist simultaneously.

Velasco’s main source of inspiration is everyday life; in her paintings, she explores themes that are directly connected to her personal experiences, illustrating the nuances of human existence.

Helen Korpak, Art critic

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As an international student at the Free Art School. Gloria Velasco: “Life demands a passion”. Interview from the series «Student Stories» from Vapaa Taidekoulu.