24/7 with

24/7 with Elisabet Gonzalez-Barranco

Artist & Graphic Designer, Houston, TX

My family: Miss them! My family is my strength, my love, my support and my inspiration.

My work: is infused with the positive energy I wish to share. El Ojo de mi Madre, my collection of paintings, is named for a signature round form or “eye.”

My passion:  In the midst of my meditations, I’ve started to “create my life” just as I do my paintings. When I paint, I am not attempting to capture the likeness of a landscape or figure. My subject is the painting itself.

My hometown: Born and raised in Paderborn, Germany.

I’m thinking about: My next vacation.

Words I live by: “Action is the foundational key to all success.” —Pablo Picasso

I can’t live without: My creations, my art, are inspired from deep within my heart. And, dancing…I danced for several years professionally in Europe.

Something I would never do again: is to forget that when making plans for life, life may have something entirely different in store.

What keeps me awake at night: My Mini Yorkie, Chabo, always wanting something in the middle of the night.

Right now I’m reading:Become a Better You by Joel Osteen

Favorite web site: urbanabstrakto.com

The best thing I ever won: Experience. Nothing important has been achieved without taking a chance. And, sometimes the experience alone is a triumph.

I wish I’d known: “Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.”—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The world would be a better place, if only: we would begin doing what we want to do now. If we did more than belong, we participated. If we did more than care, we helped. If we did more than dream, we worked hard.