About Ana

Ana Cervantes — MA, Art Education. Work shown at the Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach. Murals in San Bernardino. Designed for the City of San Bernardino Route 66 Rendezvous. Taught art in community centers, schools, group homes, parks, and online. Questions? Email anacervantesart@gmail.com, or DM @artedecervantes.

Artist statement

Ana Cervantes is a painter whose work translates internal experience through color, intuitive mark-making, and the visual rhythms of nature. Moving between spontaneity and intention, she often begins with a feeling, written thought, image, or gesture and allows the work to reveal itself through the act of painting.

Her visual language draws from both the minute and monumental: the pattern of a leaf, the texture of a feather, sunlight dancing across water, an expansive sky, or the repeating grooves of a mountain range. Through saturated color, fine marks, contrast, and layered movement, she creates worlds meant to be experienced slowly, where small details reward attention and familiar forms can transform into something imagined.

Surreal elements often emerge intuitively: a figure hidden within a landscape, an eye appearing inside a cloud, a form existing somewhere between ocean and sky. These moments invite curiosity, wonder, and discovery. For Cervantes, painting is both expression and transformation, a way to release, understand, preserve, and transmute inner experience while making space for imagination.