User:Strafalgar/Florencia San Martin Brück

Florencia San Martin Brück aka FSMB Florencia was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1972. A successful entrepreneur, professional photographer and painter, in 1996 she established 9th Insight, Inc., a high-profile marketing communications company in the USA; and in 2007 she created Balmist Photography Studio.

Her painting carrier began in 2003. She is self-taught abstract expressionism painter and from the very beginning her works were characterized by an abstract style empowered by the dynamic combination of various media techniques. This experimentation broadened when traveling to Saint Paul de Vance, France, where she attended several workshops and worked with a variety of dripping techniques, producing her first collection, Fluid Deeply.

In 2003, she expanded her photography skills studying fashion photography in Milan with master photographer Giac Casale, director of the Famosa Scuola di Fotografia.

In 2010, she incorporated all her studies in graphic design, photography and painting to create what is now recognized as the FSMB Pop-art Collection, a series of portraits of famous Argentinians and other eminent international figures.

In 2013, she studied painting with Andrés Waissman, performing a series of abstract works using only black acrylic on missionary paper.

Leaving Argentina when she was 14, Florencia has lived in various cities around the world, such as Los Angeles, Washington DC, Valencia and Milan. Like a true 3CK, she likes to view herself as a resident of planet earth.

During 2013 and 2014, she studied composition, structure and color with Heriberto Zorrilla and Helena Distefano, founders of the Argentinian Esencialismo movement.

Florencia is now working on a new collection, Metaphor, where she captures chaos with chromatic alterations of great impact and abstract brushstrokes of great sensitivity.