Gabriela Aguilo is a self tought artist that has spent her entire life creating art. She has worked in textiles, glass, and stone and currently has spent the last 15 years painting. Throughout her career she has focused on creating a visual language that expresses her journey to the Self. Who she is in an authentic way, who is asking that question and is she living from her heart and passion. Her mixed media paintings speak of that journey in a dreamlike language of the unconcious and the symbols within her dreams and thier meaning. Her big open sky landscapes invite the viewer into the indomitable nature of the soul. They seem to open a door to a calm place of grace and asks the viewer an undetermined question. They give pause and wrap the viewer in a deep place of peace opening a potal into an unknown trancendant landscape. 

She creates painting on watercolor paper in mixed media and then mounts that image onto a cradled wood panel. Once the image is complete she pours Encaustic beeswax onto the painting in a creative way the encases the painting and the viewer in a dreamlike texture. It adds a 3d effect to the painting and an ethereal mystery to the image that is truly magical. 

Aguilo speaks of a tension between the solid platform created by the daily loving practice of her craft and
the leap into the unknown image that wants to be born or shamaned into the world. It’s a scary place that is overcome with knowledge and daring. It is art as a journey that tells her a story about herself.