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= Susana Anaya = Susana Anaya was born in Cuernavaca, Mexico.

Early life and education
She is a self-taught artist who as a child was unable to express all of her emotions and feelings with words, so she learned a new way to express these through her art. She developed her skills with different techniques such as drawing, oil painting and watercolors. As a teenager, she expanded her range of painting techniques to include charcoal and chalk leading to creating sculptures with plaster and clay.

During her engineering studies, she encountered a well-known Mexican painter who became a great role model to her -el maestro Virgilio Lara. She worked under him and with him for many years immersing herself in the magic of painting techniques. She learned the ease of creation as a result of merging and this has become a signature for her work.

She lives in Zürich, Switzerland and creates her work in her Atelier taking inspiration from her life and experiences.

Art and Context
The work is realized in three-dimensional finish but presented in two dimensions. It consists of impossible volumes created with oil that should have only two dimensions. For her, the proportions are key to the role of her work derived from her love of aesthetics. Most important to her art is the relationship of the parts to each other and the to the whole creation which are in harmony, thus beauty.

The colors she uses are created mixing pigments and line oil, as the old masters did in former times. They are much brighter and more intense than normal oil colors and some are not available to purchase making them very special to her art. These colors reflect the vivid passion and intense beauty of the inner soul she is exposing and presenting in her work.

Her work is categorized in two types: Dynamic and Static paintings.

The dynamic artwork shows more energy, asymmetric with movement and masculinity with more powerful feeling. The static paintings are symmetrical, beautifully calm and stable and derived from the female energy.

Susana is especially enthusiastic about the diversity of Gerhard Richter, from his photorealist work, like “Two Candles”, till his abstract work; the power and vividness of Cy Twombly, she love his fevered phosphorescent flowers of runny jellyfish chrysanthemums with long tentacle-like dripping down; and the expressionism of Mark Rothko.

Susana Anaya currently lives and works in Switzerland.