Carmen Uribe is originally from Mexico City, where she worked as an attorney and never found the time to explore her artistic impulses.  Seven years ago she married Chris Oatway, and  adopted Virginia as her new home, and started a family.  Her six year old son, Diego, is already a veteran of the northern Virginia art scene – and he patiently joins his mom at Arlington Artists Alliance meetings.
 
Carmen’s art career technically started at age of twelve when she won a local children’s art show in Taxco, Mexico.  Later, in law school she was famous among her classmates as the one who did her professors’ portraits (or caricatures, depending on the vibes she was feeling).  But it was only four years ago that Carmen succumbed to her urge to paint, when she enrolled in classes with Jane Coonce as well as the Arlington School of Arts.  There she realized she loves creating figurative art, and she began to develop the talent inherited from her mother.
 
Returning often to Mexico, she loves the colorful landscapes as well as the beautiful colonial architectures.  But her favorite theme is the animals.  She works primarily in oil, and her paintings are characterized by beautiful and vivid colors, those which she calls them: “Happy Colors.”
 
E-mail: carmenuribe@hotmail.com
Phone: 703-241-0339