My artistic practice began with classical music and Flamenco dance, and lead to painting at the age of 18. I have always been an abstract painter working primarily in oil paint. My earliest painting/color influence came from viewing intricate ceramics in Spain, and the wool my mother’s family used in their needlework.

 

I was raised bilingual, speaking English and Spanish in Brooklyn and New York City. Additionally my family travels to Valencia, Spain, San Juan, Puerto Rico, and New York's Adirondack forest regularly. The places and people I encounter have a profound effect on the kind of paintings I make. Also influential are the fabrics, ceramics, music, food, painting and other artisanal experiences connected to these and many other places.

Miguel Martinez-Riddle was born in Brooklyn NY, and continues to live and work there.