About me

I'm Andrea Vega, a 26-year-old independent artist born in Guadalajara, Mexico. I've always enjoyed drawing, today I enjoy exploring different media such as painting, ceramics and digital illustration.

Since I was a child I remember drawing, my maternal grandmother Estela saved several of my first creations, which consisted of portraits of my family and pets.

My grandmother and my mother taught me what unconditional love, tenderness, humor and the ability to do a lot with little are.

As a child I was very curious, creative, sensitive and a little lonely. From a very early age I felt that there was something different about me, it was very difficult to make friends and feel accepted. My free time after school was spent alone in my bedroom drawing.

As soon as I turned 18, I started working in a call center to support my mother financially. We were going through an economic crisis after my parents' divorce three years earlier. That job taught me the harsh reality of the corporate world and its exploitative practices and how to forget the racist insults from the American clients I served on the phone.

A year and a half later I got a better job as a full-time Human Resources representative at a global technology company while studying Business Administration in the afternoons. During the five years I worked in this company I learned many valuable things, I even learned Portuguese. It was good while it lasted but everything has its cycle, and my cycle as an office worker came to an end with an unforgettable anxiety attack. I reached a point where the stress, monotony and fatigue were too much for me and I decided to quit my job in 2022.

A year before I resigned, I was recovering from depression and a brutal existential crisis that, like almost everyone, I experienced during the pandemic. During that recovery something in me lit up, a spark of intuition that began to ignite a bomb of questions.

What is my purpose? Does my job make me happy? Why do I always feel empty, like I'm missing something? Who I am?

Honestly my head was a mess at that moment and I couldn't answer my questions, but I did know that I was no longer happy and that I needed a radical change.

Since July 2022 I have dedicated myself completely to art, at first I was scared to death and the uncertainty overwhelmed me. Today I know that I want to do this for the rest of my life, every time I draw or paint, my mind calms and my soul strengthens.

If you made it this far, thank you for reading.

With love, Andrea.