María Jímenez

• San Martin Tilcajete

TMaris´s style is unique and very much naïve using butterflies, flowers, doves to embroider her animals (mainly rabbits).

She was born on February 2, 1962, in San Martin Tilcajete, Ocotlan de Morelos, Oaxaca.

Dedicated to her work since she was 28 years old, when she creates all kinds of figures.

In the wood carving workshop located in San Martín Tilcajete, Ocotlán de Morelos, which she shares with her brothers Cándido, Alberto and Aarón; María paints the pieces that her brothers make; figures such as rabbits, pigs, toucans, gazelles, dogs and of course angels and virgins, where the brush glides smoothly and the designs of flowers and butterflies can be appreciated, making the figures more colorful and showy, acquired by collectors.

At the age of 28, she recognized herself as a creator. She considers herself an artisan because it is an everyday job that she alternates with farm work. This contact with nature allows her to observe the variety of colors that she captures in her works, which has made her worthy of First Place in the State Nativity Scene Contest in 2007 in the city of Oaxaca, as well as Second Place in the State Popular Art Contest in Oaxaca in 1996.

Her works are exhibited at the Chicago Museum The Ellipse Arts Center, State Museum of Popular Art of Oaxaca San Bartolo Coyotepec.

EXHIBITIONS:

Chicago Museum The Ellipse Arts Center.

State Museum of Popular Art of Oaxaca, San Bartolo Coyotepec.

RECOGNITIONS AND AWARDS:

1996 Second Grand Prize of the State Museum of Popular Art.