Yuride Gutiérrez is a young artist who wants to portray 100 little corners of Costa Rica on canvas. Courtesy.
A young painter set out to captivate thousands of Ticos around the world through her social networks and, to achieve this, she took a canvas on which she is painting 100 places in Costa Rica.
A month and a half ago, Yuride Gutiérrez began this unique project. This girl, who grew up in Jiménez de Guácimo, in Limón, confessed that she was inspired by a Mexican artist to carry out her project.
“I’ve had this idea in my head for 3 months. It is a secret to no one that social networks are important to grow a brand or an artist and, from the beginning, my idea was to reach more people, to connect with their stories.
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“There are people who are not in Costa Rica and feel a connection with our country and I also wanted to reach Ticos who are outside our borders. This artist did a project, but she drew 100 works by artists like the Frenchman Claude Monet or the Dutchman Vincent Van Gogh and it occurred to me to do something similar,” she recalled.
Gutiérrez has art in her veins and since she was a little girl she loved painting and drawing, but when she began studying industrial design engineering at the Tecnológico de Costa Rica, she took a break from her role as a painter.
Young painter is making a canvas with 100 beautiful places in Costa Rica
In 2020, the artist lived in Cartago and the arrival of the pandemic made her return to the Caribbean. There she took up painting again and her mother, Mayra, motivated her to open a profile on networks to promote her work and so she began to build her brand called Myrie’s Design.
Since then he has dedicated himself to working on landscapes, portraits and everything related to Afro-Costa Rican culture.
The beginning of everything
At the beginning, Yuride wanted to capture 100 Costa Rican beaches on the canvas, but he thought that some could be similar and, therefore, he wanted to bring to life other iconic sites in the country.
This artist is used to working with miniatures and drew 5×5 centimeter squares on canvas. Once the spaces were ready, the first place she painted was Punta Uva, the iconic beach in the southern Caribbean, which is her favorite, according to what she confessed.
What the painter did not imagine is the number of people who would react to her art and they have even asked her for several places so she can paint them.
So far, Yuride has captured 10 places on his canvas. Courtesy.
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“Although I can’t answer everyone, I sit down to see each comment, because they make many suggestions of places that people would like to see on the canvas. What I do is follow people’s recommendations and connect it with my emotions, in this process I have already reached the first 10 corners.
“I already managed to visit Punta Uva beach, the Arenal and Irazú volcanoes, the La Olla crater, which was part of Irazú, the Basilica of Los Ángeles, the Puntarenas Lighthouse, the Fortín de Heredia, the Crestones del Chirripó. In addition, I made a quetzal with a coffee bush, representing the area of Los Santos and a cow on a roof that represents the canton of Zarcero,” he commented.
On the other hand, Gutiérrez plans to visit one of his favorite provinces, Guanacaste, because his father Martín is from Nicoya and some of his followers have asked him to paint the colonial Church of that Pampero canton.
The artist went to the Basilica of the Angels to give life to the national sanctuary. Courtesy.
Satisfaction
Yuride is using acrylic paint, so that each work is as good as possible. He acknowledged that the one that cost him the most to do was the Basilica of the Angels, because he painted it in the small square in front of the temple and got very distracted.
On the other hand, one of those who liked the final result the most was the Punta Uva design, because it marked the beginning of this project and has received good comments from people.
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Among the places that they have asked him to do are the Nuestra Señora de las Mercedes de Grecia parish, the typical cart that is in Sarchí, Manuel Antonio beach, Río Celeste, the Sanatorio Durán and the downtown Limón boulevard.
“I am taking this project slowly, because every time I paint a place I dedicate myself to researching it. I have not done all of them from the place itself, some I have done from my home, in Cartago and I would like to finish them in September, for the month of the Homeland.
“The truth is I am extremely excited, because I am just starting it and there are already Ticos in Canada who have decided to buy it and, even, a girl told me that she wants to see the painting at the Juan Santamaría airport. When I finish it I want to make stickers of each place, so that people can collect them, but I don’t know what I’m going to do with it,” she highlighted.
On the canvas he made 100 squares and each one measures 5×5 centimeters. Courtesy.
