Naomi Valdivia is an emerging Illustrator based in beautiful Camarillo, Ca. She has been a freelance artist for 4 years and has worked on various projects ranging from graphic design pieces to Children's Books and of course working on her own personal work.

She is a graduate of Otis College of Art and Design's renowned illustration program and has trained with many world class working artists. She and her husband, fellow illustrator Carlos Valdivia, have their illustration business and you can view their website at www.beenznrice.com.

Her work comes from a very emotional place. She is an emotional person and likes to make her choices in life using her heart than her brain. Her art is also made this way, and is very intuitive. There is a method to her madness, but the madness is what really is expressed in her pieces. Her work is very textural, and tonal, and and at times takes a step into the world of naivete, but always from the heart.

She really enjoys learning something new from each piece, even the pieces that frustrate her creates a new thought and feeling for the next one. She believes in taking each day one at a time, but keeping the future in view, the same goes for her paintings and learning from each one. The next one will be different, but better because of the knowledge acquired.