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Relationship

Single. Interested in meeting people for friendship and meeting people for networking

Hometown

Monterrey, Mexico

Places I've been

Everywhere around Texas and Mexico, Italy, England, France, Spain, Germany, Egypt, Turkey, Greece, Creete.

More about me

I am a painter and a writer, divorced and living in Mexico. My mother is an American, my father is Mexican. My husband is a political writer and a journalist. I have 4 children. I have a BA in Communications and a MA in Literature. Over the years, I have done a a little bit of journalism, PR and teaching, but 10 years ago I made some changes and started drawing and painting full time. I like to paint with oils and watercolors, drawing with charcoal and pencil, always from life. I paint and draw portraits, still lifes and landscapes. This new activity has brought a lot of happy moments into my life, and good friends from many places in the world. In the past, I wrote for a newspaper or for PR clients. Now, I write for myself, but I do better in Spanish than in English. I live in Monterrey, Mexico, but we have a second home in San Antonio Texas. We are happy to live and work in Mexico. We often travel to the US to visit dear friends and relatives from my mother's side of the family.

You are welcome to look at my drawings and paintins on my web site: www.alejandraflores.com.mx

Activities

Drawing from life, painting with oils, reading, writing, watching movies, traveling to all kind of new places

Favorite Music

blues, jazz, danzon, bolero, tango

Favorite TV Shows

Everybody Loves Raymond, Dexter, Tudors, The Wire, Law and Order, Rome.

Favorite Movies

"Volver", "The Sheltering Sky"

Favorite Books

James Elkins books on Art and Painting, Vikram Seth "An Equal Music", Joan Didion "The Year of Magical Thinking", Lisa See "Peony in Love" and many others...

Favorite People

Marguerite Yourcenar, Iris Murdoch, Caravaggio, Hildegard Von Bingen, Egon Schiele, Kate Kollwitz, John Singer Sargent

Favorite Places

home, my studio, "Santa Felicita" Church in Florence Italy, Aswan lake at night in Egypt, my grandmother's bedroom

Favorite Animals

cats

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