Violeta Barcenas/Violet Red is a self-taught Nicaraguan mixed-media artist based in Maryland. Her work is rooted in color, memory, and the feeling of being shaped by the places we come from. Through layered paintings filled with botanical forms, pattern, texture, and movement, she explores the idea that everything eventually returns--to memory, to the body, to the earth, and back again.

Influenced by Latin American landscapes, domestic spaces, gardens, and everyday beauty, her paintings move between joy and reflection. She is interested in repetition, growth, and the quiet ways nature mirrors emotional life: seasons changing, things fading and blooming again, greenery returning after winter, what we carry, and what finds its way back to us over time.

Her recent body of work, Everything Returns, continues this exploration through immersive mixed-media compositions that feel both intimate and alive.