About the Artist

BIO

WHAT HAS AN ARTIST FROM UP NORTH, LEARNED ABOUT PAINTING DOWN SOUTH?
Like a ﬁsh out of water, Kandyce has learned to adapt, appreciate and embrace the color combinations only found in southern living.

Relocating from Michigan with her family in 1994 to Monterrey, Mexico, Kandyce Waltensperger began to realize what a great opportunity she had been presented with. Soon her paintings started to reﬂect the inﬂuence of her surrounds. Her color palette went from bland to brilliant, painting with bodacious blues, radiant reds and almost screaming yellows.

Kandyce found the perfect subject matter when she began painting a series of “Muñecas” or Mexican Dolls. These unique dolls have a personal connection for her and her twin daughters. With each colorful brush stroke, she shows us the individual personalities of these handmade, one of a kind dolls.

These playful paintings are among her favorites as she delights in posing and painting them in different situations. Sometime the dolls can be found in a small town atmosphere surrounded by the Spanish inﬂuenced architecture, or in the middle of a ﬂoral scene, typically found along the Sierra Madre mountains. No matter the genre, her paintings reﬂect her well known unique style of combining vibrant colors with puzzle like composition.

As an artist working primarily in watercolors and acrylics, she has traveled and studied in such diverse places as Ecuador, France, England, Canada and of course, Mexico. Each time bringing back to her studio not just the cultural experience, but painting it through the eyes of an “outsider”.

Currently Kandyce divides her time between her studios in northern Mexico and south Texas, never running out of inspiration for new paintings. She has enjoyed exhibiting her work at various shows throughout Texas, Michigan, New York and Mexico. Her work has been purchased for various private collections in the United States and internationally. She has worked on a variety of commissioned pieces and now offers her art to the licensing market.