Alex Flores
My name is Alex Flores and I am a Visual Artist here at the Artscape Wychwood Barns. I’ve been a Visual Artist since 1990. I actually started painting little watercolors when I was 14 until I graduated from University. I like to create pieces that present a good message to save our environment.
I like to paint series where we share our spaces with our pets, our people, our community and our older people too.
Here at the Barns I have an studio where I come pretty much to work part time and I have an artist community and that’s important for me because I become more inspired and I get to relate to other artists that have another point of view about Art.
I also paint in an abstract way to show how the communities are around me and I usually see a lot of happiness and also people on the streets getting mad and that’s something I can see expressed on the canvas. Pieces like this one. Here are the whales and they are swimming freely and what I try to say in these pieces is that we must try to save the whales because we don’t have a lot and we hear that people are killing them in other countries, other places.
I’m also a Film Maker. I produce documentaries pretty much about social justice and focused on women and children. I created a network, it’s called “Las Perlas del Mar News”, where we offer news that represent women and children again and we also created a platform or forum for women that will like to send a message or will like to speak to our media.
Our media is on line TV shows and it’s every week where we put programs and one program is “Las Perlas del Mar Noticias” which is in Spanish, “Las Perlas del Mar News” which is in English and “Women in Art” (“Mujeres en Arte”), “And what is your opinion” (“Y tu que opinas?”) and in these programs we try to show women that do something around our city and try to make changes for social justice or for women’s rights or women and children, for all the minorities, immigrants, gays and lesbians, women of colour and to have Human rights and Civil rights to live with more dignity in Canada.
I have been a director of a few documentaries, one of them is “Juarez”, which is about the women’s killings in Juarez, Chihuahua and Mexico and this documentary has been crossing borders around the world and has been seen in a lot of countries, creating a consciousness about what is happening in Mexico or other countries.
That’s pretty much who I am as an artist and I hope you enjoy this interview and thank you.