Alicia Garfias PrProfile

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She was born in Central Mexico and grew up surrounded by the Colonial art -still alive in the ancient Haciendas, monasterys and convents of the State of San Luis Potosí.

Alicia was educated in Catholic schools in Mexico City, Saint Louis MO and Paris, France, through a process in which she began to develop her talents at oil painting. Together with the formal academic education she kept on feeding her spirit with additional studies in History of Art, crafts and pictoric techniques.

Today, Garfias is the only artist producing tratidional oil paintings, of Our Lady of Guadalupe. In Gafias' works all the typical elements are present such as the Virgin flowers, the angels and the Apparitions to Juan Diego.