Adriana Peña✦

About

Outside of work, I'm a creator at heart, happiest making things, learning things, and losing myself in a good conversation.

Painting and reading are how I reconnect and regain energy. I love creating, and I love profound conversations: with myself, with others, through books. I'd rather wrestle with a novel, interesting topic than linger on the surface of anything. It's the same curiosity that keeps me asking why all day.

Working out is my meditation. It's how I unwind and feel good. I love connecting with nature too: long walks in the park, or at the beach. Coffee is a favorite part of my mornings.

Traveling is where that curiosity gets to run. Every place I've been has widened how I see things, and shown me parts of myself I wouldn't have found standing still. I come home from each trip a little surer of who I am, and a lot less certain that my way is the only way.

I'm based in Mexico. A happy wife, a daughter, a sister, and a dog-and-cat mum.

adri.pena30@gmail.com →

Outside work

The making, the people, and the places that keep me curious.

A half-finished watercolour of a red Formula 1 car propped on a desk, surrounded by brushes and paint palettes, with sunlit palms through the window behind it.
MakingThe most ambitious one yet, still in progress. That view is my studio.
Adriana beside a wall of her framed watercolours at an exhibition.
MakingMy first exhibition. An amateur show, and I was elated.
A watercolour painting of a toucan on textured paper.
MakingPaint is how I reconnect
Adriana and Yair on a boat on Lake Como, a stone village on the shore behind them.
TravelLago di Como, from the water
Adriana and Yair in coats, a waterfall and dark rock behind them.
TravelIceland, the trip we still talk about
Adriana and Yair beside a canal lined with moored gondolas.
TravelVenice, before the crowds woke up
Adriana and Yair in front of a great wooden torii gate in a Tokyo park.
TravelTokyo, under the great torii
Adriana and Yair above a town stacked on the cliffs of the Amalfi Coast.
TravelThe Amalfi Coast, stacked on the cliffs
Adriana and Yair on a boat with the Statue of Liberty behind them.
TravelNew York, on the water
Adriana and Yair in a plaza, a mirrored sculpture and skyline behind them.
TravelChicago
Adriana and Yair in winter coats at a railing above a sea arch.
TravelCold coast, warm company
Napo, a small white dog, mid-grin on the sand at the beach in Los Mochis.
FamilyNapo at his happiest, on the beach in Los Mochis
Napo the dog in a Halloween costume on a rug.
FamilyNapo, entirely unbothered by Halloween
Beni the cat looking straight up at the camera.
FamilyBeni, running the household
An espresso and two small pastries on a marble table.
EverydayThe best part of a morning