Valentina Atkinson

Valentina Atkinson is a Houston-based visual artist known primarily for her abstract watercolor compositions. Valentina was born and raised in Mexico City. The daughter of a painter and an architect, Atkinson developed an early interest the arts that has become a lifelong passion. She studied Industrial Design at the Universidad Ibero-Americana in Mexico, and Textile Design and Communication Arts at the University of San Francisco in the U.S. She has studied with renowned artists such as Manuel Arrieta and Alicia Leyva in Mexico, and Arthur Turner and others, at the Glassell School of Art, the Houston Art League and Watercolor Society of Texas.