Artist Biography

Ilse was born in Mexico City. Although her family was not dedicated to art, her mother (who had a great ability for drawing) taught her to draw from a young age, observing and copying shapes. One of her hobbies was visiting museums with her cousins and dreaming if she would be able one day to make works as spectacular as those on display.
She participated in some drawing contests and commissions for the school where she studied.
She studied architecture at the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City and it was there that she had a direct approach to other mediums, such as watercolor, linoleum engraving, zinc plate, graphite and charcoal.
She managed to combine full-time work as an architect with the love for painting and drawing, attending workshops with various artists who helped her improve her techniques, some of them graduated from the prestigious Escuela de San Carlos.
She was fortunate to travel around the world with her family, which allowed her to broaden her horizons in terms of artists, mediums, colors and different ways of expressing the craft that each one calls art.
At the end of 2016 she moved to Madrid. She atended to Camilo José Cela University, where she obtained the Spanish degree in architecture, but her passion and concern for art did not sleep, so she looked fot the tutoring of two great watercolorists Nasrin and Mona Omrani at the International Watercolor Gallery IWS Marmar. There, hand in hand with the bests, is where she has managed to boost her career as an artist.
She has participated in different national and international competitions, as well as commissioned watercolors of different themes.
She is currently promoting her new project called Ja t'aan, which means "water that speaks" in Mayan.