ABOUT

With lifelong parallel careers as a visual artist and language professional, Monica Weber-Salinas has lived and worked in Forsyth County, North Carolina, for over 20 years and has been an acitve professional artist and a legal and medical interpreter & translator for 40 years in the USA, Mexico and Switzerland. A first-generation multi-cultural immigrant from Mexico,  Monica lives with her husband and two dogs in Winston-Salem.

Monica's art encompasses a very wide variety of styles, media, techniques and dimensions. It has evolved over the decades to include figurative and abstract paintings with strong emphasis on the human figure, as well as mixed-media, stylized line-drawing, mosaic, large-scale mosaic installations, bas-relief, sculpture and murals. 

Monica describes her style as eclectic: "My artistic leitmotiv is eclecticism: the incessant urge to explore new media, techniques and dimensions. After forty years, I still embark on a unique, exciting and challenging adventure with every new piece. Each phase, creative concept and message seems to demand  its own techniques and media. My reluctance to repeat myself comes at a price: it precludes develolping a constant, recognizable style. The highly valued artist's signature-style eludes me -- the very notion feels like a straight-jacket. It took me decades to stop seeing this as a shameful shortcomming and recognize that, unhindered by the urge to stick to a style, I enjoy full creative freedom.  I now embrace and thoroughly enjoy the flexibility to adapt and work with any technique called for by new projects or creative concepts, and the thrill of not knowing which new style and materials I will discover next year.

 From 2003 through 2017 Monica's work was featured in numerous art exhibits throughout the state. In recent years she has worked mostly by commission or on specific projects and has also dedicated increasingly more time to conveying the pleasure of creation to children and adults alike during art workshops, and of bringing art to the community through public art installations and community engagement.