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Carmen Chami born in 1974 in Mexico city, she studied Restoration academically at National Restoration School in Mexico (ENCRYM). Her studies also included private painting lessons with relevant Mexican scene paint teachers such as Alejo Jacobo, Rafael Mazón and Susanna Polo, some of them former pupils of such important artists as Diego Riviera. In addition, she has taken workshops with important artists such as Jose Luis Cuevas and the graphic artist Enrique Cattaneo.
Carmen Chami has been seriously studying Mexican Colonial art baroque painting (17th and 18th centuries) since 1996, and her restoration career opportunities allowed her to acquire Mexican baroque painting important knowledge such as original materials, application technique, chemical components and deterioration issues.
When in 1996 Carmen Chami began doing Mexican Baroque Masters reproductions, her first step was to identify what would be all baroque artists materials and application techniques including red imprimatura, natural gums and pigments as well as colorful varnished prepared by herself in order to give the work fine details. It is worth to say that all these processes are very complex and demand a great amount of work and dedication. Nowadays Carmen Chami continues researching and employing baroque materials, she plays with them and prints her originality creating ways to develop her own pictorial work, which is also embedded of symbolism, color search and experimentation.
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