SANDRA DURAN WILSON

Sandra Duran Wilson is a fourth generation artist. Her mother’s relatives come from Mexico, Spain, and Italy and they were artists. She started painting at the age of five under the tutelage of her great aunt, Santa Duran, a well-known Texas landscape artist. They would travel to location and paint the old missions and landscapes around San Antonio, TX. Sandra’s great-grandfather, Juan Duran, a photographer from Madrid, Spain and her grandfather, a ceramic artist from Mexico both influenced her work.

Sandra’s early years were spent on the border of Mexico where the people, animals, landscape, drama of the religious rituals, and stories of the curanderas shaped her reality. Years later she would return many times to Mexico and South America to study the culture, traditions, and art. Her spirituality combined with her scientific studies has directed her work from realism to abstract mixed media.

She is inspired by science and her paintings are often visual interpretations of theoretical physics, chemistry and biology concepts. Sandra’s father and his relatives were physicians and healers and they nurtured her love of science. She would look into her father’s microscope and then paint what she saw. She is also affected by frequencies. When she hears sounds she sees colors.

The mixed media pieces employ painting, printmaking, transfers, and collage. She has degrees in both science and art from the University of New Mexico and she has lived in Santa Fe, NM since 1977.

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