Paula was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina and moved to Northern California in 2000. She’s always been involved in the Arts - first in literature obtaining a MA in Spanish from Stanford University and a PhD in Hispanic Literature from UC Berkeley, and later in the visual arts getting an MFA in Film Directing from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, CA. (Watch some of her films here!) She also worked as a photographer for many years.

A stress-induced illness made her come back to her childhood passion - painting - as a way of healing and calming her nervous system. Little did she know that the Universe was guiding her to find her true unique expression. Copper Rose Art was born and she now can’t imagine a life without painting.

The image of the copper rose belongs to one of her favorite authors, the “Argentinian Dostoyevski” Roberto Arlt. In one of his novels the main character Erdosain, a failed inventor, dreams of creating a copper-plated rose - an artificial flower that would never die. It is indeed a great analogy for an artist’s ultimate fantasy - to render our subject matter, whether it be emotions, memories, dreams, etc, immortal through art.