I am Manu, an 18-year-old girl, ecuadorian and in love with my country. Ecuador is known worldwide for being multiethnic, multicultural and for its mega biological diversity, which always surprises me with a new flower, a butterfly, birds, turtles and many other multicolored species, unique in the world.

Since I was a child I started in the plastic arts with the pencil technique, and little by little, wanting to express my love for nature, I began to see the need to add color to my drawings, and I went from acrylic to watercolor, with which I have definitely identified myself.

I was surprised at how easily the paint ran and colors were created that expressed exactly what I felt: dark edges, explosions of colors, small empty spaces, light parts... my hands simply knew the path they had to follow with the brush; it was as if the watercolor had been waiting for me to discover it.

I lived my entire childhood in Mindo, a town in the middle of the mountains known worldwide for its numerous species of birds, butterflies, and orchids that inhabit the surrounding cloud forest, part of the Mindo-Nambillo Reserve and currently declared a Biosphere Reserve.

All this, added to the passion that I developed for watercolor, filled me with inspiration and the desire to show the world all the images of majestic and unique animals that I had ever seen up close and that had stayed in my head.

And little by little I began to challenge myself. Why not paint animals from other parts of the world, like elephants, which have always seemed so beautiful and noble to me? And so, each time, I opened up to paint new things.

Over time, painting has become another part of me, a way to express how I feel, to capture a thought on a piece of cardboard, a bird that crossed my path or a dog that conquered me on my way back. to my house.

For all this, you should know that each painting I do is full of love and has a part of me embodied in it.

I currently live in Tumbaco, a valley located on the slopes of Ilaló, an inactive volcano in the middle of the two mountain ranges that cross Ecuador from north to south, and which still maintains that mixture between city and nature.

Thank you for visiting my profile and seeing art in my work :)