Rolando Veraza - Painter, Sculptor, Muralist, Architect

Rolando Veraza poses with his painting of galloping horses.

Titles : Fantasia de Carnaval I, left, and Portentoso.

Rolando Veraza says there came a point in his life when it was high time he did what he really wanted to do : paint and sculpt. He was a full time architect then.

The Art of the Escaramuza discovered Veraza at the "World Equestrian Gathering" in Mexico City in July 2013 where an Escaramuza Fair was happening.

He was a warm fellow, with a gift for making one feel welcome in his artist circle of friends at his gallery-booth filled with his paintings and sculptures. People from other stands gravitated to his, sharing food, drink and a good laugh.

When we asked about his painting of an escaramuza team, he says it's SOLD.

Horse lovers will appreciate his images of this graceful animal galloping across his canvas.Check out his online gallery for more of his work, and don't miss his Pegasus.

When we asked about his painting of an escaramuza team, he says it's SOLD.

Contact

www.rolandoveraza.com
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E-mail: rolveraza@hotmail.com

cell +52.155.1384.4541

nextel 46192233

+52.55.5485.7750

Xochimilco, Mexico

Gladys Roldan de Moras - Painter

Here's an artist who lets us peep into her studio and watch the evolution of her work. Gladys Roldan de Moras' Facebook page What's on my Easel exhibits her paintings in a series of photographs taken at different points in time. Here she invites you to see how her paintings mature, using a style she describes as "representational impressionism," from charcoal sketches into colorful masterpieces.  

While raised in Monterrey, Mexico by her Mexican mother and Colombian father, it was her charro grandfather who introduced her to her nation's sport of charreria. But it wasn't until decades later after moving to San Antonio, Texas that she fell in love with this female charreria sport and started putting it on canvas. Roldan de Moras says she was especially drawn to the riders' dedication to their training, their horses' skill and everything about their dresses.

Her grandfather Ernesto M. Olivares Villarreal in Monterrey
on Christmas Eve 1933.

"I know that he would have enjoyed to know that despite the tradition of charreria did not continue on with his own sons, it did somehow find its way into my art."

Roldan de Moras is a full time artist who teaches oil painting at the Coppini Academy Of Fine Arts in San Antonio. She has also illustrated children books.  Every summer she returns to her home in northern Mexico, offering workshops and taking back inspiration for her next painting.

The above painting, titled "Escaramuza in San Antonio," won her the Best of Show prize at

the American Impressionist Society's national juried show in 2012 and a $15,000.00 award.

For more on this artist
Website roldandemoras.com
Facebook What's on my Easel

Rocio Sandoval - Painter

This former escaramuza rider has combined her love for charreria and horses with her artistic talent for over four decades in Aguascalientes, with dozens of exhibits worlwide. She says it's the horses' free spirit that she admires and tries to capture.

Escaramuza Reencuentro Sanmarqueno carry a banner designed by Rocio Sandoval, whose daughter rides on the team.

Banner detail

Sandoval's work was recently spotted on a banner used by an escaramuza team during the opening parade at an escaramuza fair, seen in the pictures at left and above. 

She didn't grow up in a charro family, but fell in love with charreria and married a charro who was also an escaramuza team instructor.

After years of riding with escaramuza teams, she passed the tradition on to her two daughters who are active escaramuza riders and team instructors in Aguascalientes.

Title : Rumbo Fijo (Straight Course)

Sandoval is best known for her paintings of Our Lady of Guadalupe and for the spiritual references she incorporates throughout her work.  For example, her paintings of Mexico's patron Saint are surrounded by ancient Indian codices that hark back to Mexico's indigenous religious history, a tribute to mother earth, known as "Tonantzin" by the Mexicas (or Aztecs) before the Spanish conquest. In all her work, she incorporates images of the four elements, the four cardinal directions and codes from the Nahuatl language, one of the most widespread ​​prehispanic languages alive today in Mesoamerica.

 Rocio Sandoval poses with her paintings of Our Lady of Guadalupe, that include ancient Indian spiritual symbols.

 

Title : Retorno a lo Sagrado (Return to the Sacred)

Sandoval, who gives art classes to all ages from her studio in Augascalientes, is also an authority on various Mexican traditions. She speaks at conferences about the Virgin of Guadalupe, the tradition of The Day of the Dead and the "Huehuetlatolli," or 'The sayings of the old,' or wisdom that was passed down from generation to generation in the Nahuatl language.

 Contact

Rocio Sandoval 

Aguascalientes, Mexico

E-mail : rociosandoval11@hotmail.com

 Home : 001.449.914.0684 (telcel) 

Cell :045.449.111.66.45