Guadalupe Urbina is a painter,poet, songwriter. She paints with acrylics and oils using paper made from natural fibers in tropical countries. Several of her paintings are available as high quality prints, made in Taos, New Mexico at the Barry Norris Studio, where they produce museum quality prints.
The main source of inspiration for her paintings are the creation myths of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica. She paints images that have deep philosophical meaning within rural indigenous or mestizo peoples such as quetzals, butterflies, snakes and trees in both distant and present time. Her stories and songs are based on and inspired by the myths and imagery of the peoples of pre-Columbian Mesoamerican. Sequences reflect the story of creation found in cosmogonist Costa Rican thought (including Bri-Bri, Cabecar and Ngöbe cultures which are a living examples of centuries-old resistance to assimilation, and which have a love for nature), the Pop Vuh Book of Wisdom of Ancient Mayan, Aztecan and Mayan codices.
The creative work of Guadalupe reflects the soul of Costa Rica for her people with these many dimensions of their culture.
Guadalupe has produced a series of paintings reflecting Mesoamerican feminine archetypes based on her research and interests in the history of Central America mythlogy. The paintings are in part biograpical In that they represent different dimensions of her psyche. But through the strength of the work they move into the collective psyche of the indigenous Central American woman.
In this series she is using hand-made paper from fruits and vegetables - raw materials of the earth - as the essence of the feminine archetypes are from the earth, the sea, the animals, and vegetation that support the life process.
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