Salomé González was born in 1986 in Ibarra, Ecuador.
She lives and works in France.
In 2003, she obtained her diploma at the School of Fine Arts “Daniel Reyes” (Ecuador) where she graduated in graphic art.
In 2010, she graduated from the Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador, majoring in Product Design and Process Control.
She worked for seven years for modular furniture companies, juggling between the design and the architecture parts of the job.
In 2017, she moved to France where she decided to fully devote herself to painting.
After a period of figurative and surrealist style, she is influenced by abstract expressionism, notably by artists like Joan Mitchell, Hans Hofmann and is currently influenced by David Hockney.
The artist’s work is linked to experiences of her life in the countryside. The fact that she grew up in the midst of nature has had a preponderant influence on her works, especially as an aesthetic reference.
We can describe her work as a “metaphorical garden”, which would be a map of emotions, feelings, perceptions and sensations, where she represents the psychological complexity of the human being.
To recreate her “metaphorical garden” the artist has assigned maize plants as an artful and symbolic element, thanks to the relevance of the ancestral legacy in her Andean culture. Thus we can say that her artistic work is situated on the fine line between memory and psychology.