CAITLIN PADILLA

I am a Spiritual Surrealist painter and winner of the New Mexico Entertains Award for Top Artist 2023. As a native New Mexican, having a family foundation of centuries, my roots run deep. I have known I wanted to be an artist since I was seven and have devoted myself to my craft. My work has always been a vehicle of communication and connection. It is an evolution of my journey through navigating connection and relationships, spirituality, ideology and imagination. I push myself to understand the ethereal and ephemeral nature of being and the universe. I am inspired by philosophy, existentialism, Sacred Geometry, the interconnectedness of the Universe, the feminine ideal and preconceived social structures. My process involves encompassing the beauty and simplistic repetition in nature on both the large and small scale and examining it on a deeper level. I believe in involving my audience in my process as much as possible, and paint live at every event, inviting connection and exposing myself and my process, creating an open and vulnerable dialogue.