ARTIST STATEMENT

beatriz padilla

Wilderness Conservation Painting Expeditions

The most extraordinary trait of our planet is biodiversity, the dazzling intelligences, adaptations, synergies and breathtaking beauty of wild nature, true foundation of civilization. Wilderness – the libraries of biodiversity - is and will continue to be the sole focus of my art production. No other theme merits my time, energy, talents, resources, my life.

Mine is not art for the sake of art. Mine is art on a mission. I am an activist painter, a wilderness ambassador, an artist irretrievably in love with Earth’s flora, fauna, substrates and cycles.

Out in the wild, quiet and fairly still, creatively immersed in nature for hefty continuums of time, my communion with the multiple dimensions of each habitat gains in depth as I endeavor to render homage to its millenary evolution and present-day significance, portraying its particular expression, its unique character, its sounds.

Ongoing, to date I have embarked on 35 painting expeditions to endangered and protected wild areas: from Tierra del Fuego to the Caribbean and continental United States, from Europe to equatorial and southern Africa, and in my native Mexico, all of my paintings speak of inspiring or alarming, always relevant nature conservation stories.

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ABOUT ME

beatrizpadilla has devoted her life to the environment, founding and leading projects such as the design and construction of Mexico’s first transcontinental solar racecar, Mexico’s and Guatemala’s intercollegiate electric vehicle racing championships, Mexico’s Advanced Battery Consortium (for electric vehicles), and the production of comic books for wilderness conservation.

In 2009 she founded the Forest of Water Initiative for the conservation of central Mexico’s main source of water (H2O provider to nearly a fourth of Mexico’s total population), leading the initiative from 2019 to 2025, up to the stage when it became a government priority. beatrizpadilla has devoted her life to the environment, founding and leading projects such as the design and construction of Mexico’s first transcontinental solar racecar, Mexico’s and Guatemala’s intercollegiate electric vehicle racing championships, Mexico’s Advanced Battery Consortium (for electric vehicles), and the production of comic books for wilderness conservation.

In 2009 she founded the Forest of Water Initiative for the conservation of central Mexico’s main source of water (H2O provider to nearly a fourth of Mexico’s total population), leading the initiative from 2019 to 2025, up to the stage when it became a government priority.


She currently focuses on depicting the sounds of biodiversity, particularly vocalizations of whales. Beatriz is founder and President of the Fundación Biósfera del Anáhuac, (funba.org).
NEXT AUCTION IN SILICON VALLEY

My paintings are not only about wilderness but also FOR its conservation.

  • Among all Climate change devastating effects on Life in general, I am particularly touched by the alarming decline of Gray whale populations due to hunger caused by Arctic ice-loss.
  • With Gray whales as my flag, I am preparing to AUCTION my three latest paintings in Silicon Valley, and donate 75% in support of a promising Climate Restoration pilot project: ocean iron fertilization in downwelling eddies.
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