Sandra Rodríguez & Emmanuel Díaz

 Born and raised in Cuba, Sandra and Emmanuel are a couple in both life and art. They have worked collaboratively for over fourteen years, painting simultaneously during the creation process. They work together on each of their paintings, but in different phases and rotating between their canvases. Both artists studied at the Professional Academy of Arts and the University of the Arts (ISA) in Havana, Cuba; and have won numerous awards throughout their career. Their work is in private collections in the United States, Canada, England and Italy. They currently live in South Florida, where they continue their partnership in life and creative work.

Sandra & Emmanuel's work is clearly defined in two parallel creative lines, each of these lines with a style, technique and theme very different from the other:

On the one hand we have a very innovative style of painting with an extraordinary technique, where these artists begin the process using brushes and palette knives in the first layers, but then they finish the pictorial process using a very unique technique that consists of using letter stamps to put each color on the canvas. They mix each color on the palette, put it on a rubber stamp and then stamp the shape of the letter on the canvas, by hand and one by one until forming the illusion of the human figure. 

On the other hand we have a very spontaneous and expressive abstract seascape style. It is a very personal vision of how these artists see and feel the colors and energy of the Caribbean Sea. Sandra and Emmanuel are of Cuban origin, they were born, raised and even became artists on the island. The insularity and the presence of that sea are part of their identity. Every time they visit the island they always go to the ocean to reconnect with that energy. There they take photographs, make sketches and even make plein air paintings in an attempt to capture "the soul" and the unique colors of those waters. Then they bring all that information to their studio in Miami and use it as the raw material from which these powerful and serene abstract seascapes are born, which are a window to the Caribbean Sea.

 "We approach the face and nature as a theme to talk about other deeper areas of the human being. We have always believed that for an artist it is very important to have a work that is unique and different. We have studied and worked with the aim of developing a totally original work and with a very own style. It has been a path of many years of personal search, technical and conceptual experimentation."