Fernanda Franco

Fernanda loves touring mercados, jardines and patios and has a passion for handmade Mexican textiles. She has also traveled and extensively in Italy and France. Her work is aesthetically influenced by the color palette of Maestro Pedro Coronel and poetry of Octavio Paz. Her work has been featured in The Daily Beast, Time Out and in films. Fine artist and designer born and bred in Mexico City, former corporate designer for Wall Street, MFA in Communication Design from Pratt Institute; her works on paper explore the interaction of color and its connection to joy and nature as source of resiliency, her hope is to bring courage and peace into a chaotic-disrupted world by questioning our connection to beauty and harmony.