About Yolanda Romero

Yolanda Romero (1945–2015) was a Mexican-born artist whose paintings grew from a lifelong curiosity about the world around her and a deep connection to her Mexican heritage.

Born in Mexico City, Yolanda discovered her love of drawing and painting as a child. After twenty years as a teacher and kindergarten principal, she continued to expand her artistic abilities through workshops and classes in watercolor, oil painting, sculpture, drawing, printmaking, acrylics, digital design, and art history. Watercolor, however, remained especially close to her heart.

Her artistic journey was shaped by the people and places she encountered along the way. She was inspired by Mexican watercolorists Edgardo Coghlan and Juan Moysén, by the landscapes she experienced throughout Mexico and California, and by the many people she met through her travels and artistic communities.

At the heart of Yolanda's work is Mexico. Her paintings draw on memories of childhood travels, family traditions, everyday meals served on beautifully decorated clay ceramics and onyx platters, and the landscapes and people that remained part of her imagination. Her Mexican heritage was not simply a subject of her paintings, it was woven into the way she experienced and interpreted the world.

After moving to the United States in 1989, Yolanda continued to paint, exhibit, teach, collaborate, and learn. Her work reflects an artist who never stopped exploring, whose curiosity remained alive throughout her life, and who found beauty in the familiar as well as the new.

These greeting cards share a small piece of Yolanda's artistic journey—her love of color, nature, Mexico, and the places and memories that inspired her.

The cards

Each card is made from one of Yolanda's original paintings, printed and hand-finished by her daughter Claudia—cut, folded, and finished one at a time. It started small: a few cards for family, then a local shop that asked for more. This site is an extension of that same small, unhurried project—a way to share her mother's paintings a little further.