Category Archives: Artwork spotlight

Watercolour coastal landscape painting showing weathered branches resting on white sand, with a long pale trunk extending diagonally across the foreground and darker intertwined wood behind it. Soft green and yellow washes indicate blurred foliage in the background.

In Focus | Coastal Landscape Painting by Ana Elena Fernández See this week’s newsletter. Latin American Contemporary Watercolour Painting Travelling around Costa Rica,.

A latin american contemporary painting titled Ecos del Primer Dios by Emilia Cantor depicts a glowing golden face with sun-like rays emerging between darkened buildings under a deep blue night sky. The face, illuminated against the shadowed architecture, gazes outward with an expression that feels both human and divine. Bold brushstrokes and rich tones of blue, gold, and red create a sense of mystery and tension, while the foreground dissolves into near-black shadow, suggesting a stairway or passage leading into darkness.

In Focus | Emilia Cantor

October 26, 2025

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In Focus | Ecos del Primer Dios by Emilia Cantor Latin American Contemporary Painting This week I’ve chosen a new painting by the.

Latin American watercolour artist Juan Carlos Camacho’s painting showing a shaded street with green shutters, white umbrellas, and a red stop sign

In Focus: Juan Carlos Camacho

October 5, 2025

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In Focus: Penumbras by Latin American watercolour artist Juan Carlos Camacho See this week’s newsletter. Next week, Galería Talentum in Barrio Escalante, San.

Painting of a woman floating in water, lots of blues, greens and turquoises, by Karla Herencia, a figure in the Latin American art scene

18 Months of MÍRAME

September 28, 2025

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Expanding Visibility for Costa Rican Art See this week’s newsletter. When MÍRAME Fine Art launched eighteen months ago, it did so with one.

The Neighbors (2025), oil and acrylic on canvas by Sofía Ruiz Costa Rican artist. A young boy in glasses and a cream sweater sits on a bench beside a fantastical pink creature holding a balloon, set against a barren landscape.

In Focus: Sofía Ruiz

September 21, 2025

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In Focus | Sofía Ruiz | The Neighbors See this week’s newsletter. New Painting The Neighbors by Sofía Ruiz Costa Rican Artist After.

Hyperrealist painting by Costa Rican artist Gilberto Ramírez depicting the summit of Cerro Chirripó in Chirripó National Park, the highest peak in Costa Rica. The composition frames the rocky mountain through dense green foliage on both sides, with a winding stone path leading the viewer’s eye toward the peak under a bright blue sky with soft clouds.

In Focus: Hacia La Cumbre

August 31, 2025

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MÍRAME | In Focus Our In Focus series spotlights a single artwork from the MÍRAME roster, unpacking the layers of meaning, context and.

Contemporary mural art in Costa Rica by Ullilo, featuring layered geometric shapes in earthy browns, greens, and oceanic blues on a private patio wall in Playas del Coco

Ulises Rivera | New Mural

August 24, 2025

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Contemporary Mural Art in Costa Rica: Ulises Rivera‘s New Work in Playas del Coco See this week’s newsletter. On a white outside wall.

Part of Leonardo Ureña's Urban Series. A tightly framed urban scene in San José, Costa Rica, showing a dense patchwork of rooftops in shades of red, rust, and grey. In the mid-ground, a white building stands out with a brightly striped red, green, and blue horizontal trim. Details such as hotel signs, satellite dishes, streetlamps, and mismatched windows hint at the area’s mix of residential and commercial use. A narrow strip of concrete street with a motorbike is partially visible, blending into the surrounding architecture.

In Focus: Leonardo Ureña

August 8, 2025

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MÍRAME | In Focus Our In Focus series spotlights a single artwork from the MÍRAME roster, unpacking the layers of meaning, context, and.

Volcano tapestry - a blue triangle representing a volcano, with a light blue crescent at the top.

New Volcano Tapestry Series

February 15, 2025

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Oscar Ruiz-Schmidt’s New Costa Rican Volcano Tapestry Series Volcanoes in Textile Form Oscar Ruiz-Schmidt, Orosi, Tapestry Oscar Ruiz-Schmidt’s new tapestry series presents Costa.

Poster with red and blue abstract background with a humpback whale breaking in the foreground, advertising the Festival Internacional de Cine

What’s On in Costa Rica

January 26, 2025

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w/c 27 January 2025 Don’t miss the exciting art exhibitions happening in Costa Rica this week! This week we support the inaugural Festival.

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Category Archives: Artwork spotlight