Clarissa Banos is a visual artist originally from El Salvador, whose artwork focuses on traditional Latin Americal culture as well as in female portraiture. She is passionate about the magnificient Indigenous civiliazations of the Ancient Americas and particulary intrigued by the Pre-Hispanic iconography found in ancient textiles of Mexico, Central America and South America. Through her bright and colourful paintings, Clarissa pays tribute to the wisdom, strength and mystical universe of Indigenous women, who are always portrait at the axis of a vibrant, otherworldly and mystical universe, in celebration of Latin America's idiosyncrasies, popular culture and folklore. Clarissa moved to New Westminster, BC, in 2001, where she currently lives and works as a visual artist and visual arts instructor.
