About:

"I did not choose to be an artist, Art chose me! It found me, healed me and gave me a great reason to live. To me, Art is an act of Love! Jeannina Blanco is the founder and director of Plein Air Costa Rica since 2012, exhibiting and traveling with the group. She has secured an art career for the past 23 years been accepted as a member of artists associations such as Salmagundi Club New York, California Art Club, Southern California Plein Air Painters Association, L'Association Internationale des Arts Plastiques (AIAP-IAA) and the Costa Rican Association of Visual Artists. With technology as her professional background, she considers that Art "found her", as in 1996 healed from brain surgery through painting. After, she took art workshops with artist of her admiration, most significantly, a workshop with Hedi Moran at Scottsdale Artists School in Arizona gave her a new understanding of what painting is for her. Blanco’s work is been published in Los Angeles Times/Orange County in the year 2000 followed by other publications such as The Artist’s Blue Book, book covers, music CDs covers, TV, radio, and magazines. Co-producing and co-directing a 50-minute documentary about the theater movement in Costa Rica along with a series of 12 portraits resulted in a Declaration of Cultural Interest in 2009, as well as in 2019 with her participation in the Cultural Artistic Exchange organized by Unamos Culturas that took place in Costa Rica and in Poland. Blanco finds motivation in chasing the light in landscapes and portraiture with live models. Her work consists also of hundreds of paintings on various media and murals and is collected in several countries around the world. Currently, exhibits in Poland her recent collection of paintings and dedicates her time to paint full time,