None of them carry a title. Whatever someone sees in it is theirs.
Abstract painter · Untitled work
Ana Vélez
I have painted in acrylic since 2006. My works carry no titles, and I sign them wherever the painting tells me to. The meaning is placed there by whoever looks.
AV — 01 · 120 × 110 CM · 47 × 43 IN
AV — 01 · 120 × 110 CM · 47 × 43 IN
In my studio · Puebla, Mexico
About
I started painting with my mother's brushes.
In 2006 I lost both my parents. My father, Alfonso Vélez Pliego, a historian, spent his life defending the cultural and architectural heritage of Puebla. My mother, Lilia María Iglesias García Teruel, was a recognised painter who left part of herself in every canvas she made.
When her brushes and palette knives came to me, I began giving shape and colour to what I felt. Since then, every time I pick one up she is present in it — I even think she moves it a little.
What inspires me is the dizzying way the world turns. I take the best and the worst of what surrounds us and turn it into images that try to say that, despite our differences, we can live together by appealing to what we share. We only have one world: there is room for all of us.
2006
First canvas
0
Years painting
Acrylic
Medium
Puebla
Based in
- Born
- 26 March 1971 · Puebla, Mexico
- Training
- Self-taught · Law degree, Escuela Libre de Derecho de Puebla, 1996
- Current collection
- "Los claroscuros del alma"
- Collaboration
- Ongoing with the accessories brand Hono
Why don't I title most of my work? Because it moves me that each viewer becomes part of it, makes it a little bit theirs through their own reading. The moment they read a title, I have already told them how to think.
Ana Vélez
I title only the pieces where I am trying to share one specific thought.
Recognition
Artistic ambassador for Hecho en México in Italy.
Mexico's Ministry of Economy nominated me as artistic ambassador of the Hecho en México programme at Premio Arte Ánima Latina, Autumn–Tuscany 2025 edition, organised by Salentino Group. This painting earned me the Identity and Culture award in Cortona, Italy.
- 2026Mostra d’Arte Americana, Rocca Paolina — Perugia, Italy
- 2025"Identità e Cultura" award — Cortona, Italy
- 2025Art ambassador, Premio Arte Ánima Latina — Perugia & Cortona
- 2025"Hecho en México" ambassador, Ministry of Economy
- 2025Subasta de Arte con Causa charity auction, Justicia Ciudadana A.C. — Puebla
Process
Music, a stain-covered apron, and total surrender to the moment.
Painting is a ritual. I look at the finished canvas and it is the work itself that tells me where the signature belongs. That is why it is never in the same place.