Original oil paintings · Florida
Stories that live
beyond words.
Figurative paintings exploring identity, memory and the quiet transformations that shape who we become.
Painted slowly. Felt deeply.
Every painting begins as a visual conception and becomes a process of
transmutation—emotion made tangible.The collection
Selected works
Inside the studio
From first marks
to final layers.
Each painting develops slowly through drawing, tonal structure, color and detail. The image changes as the layers accumulate—until the original idea finds its physical form.
“A painting is not simply completed. It reveals itself through patience, adjustment and layer after layer of attention.”
Studies & practice
Looking closely is part of the work.
The artist
Mylene
Hernández
I paint to tell stories—to capture something that words alone can’t always express.
Working primarily in oils, my practice is figurative, sometimes symbolic, and always infused with intention. Each original is made by hand in my Florida studio, carrying something from the moment it was created—and something of myself, too.
Mylene
From the studio journal
Behind the paintings
Commissions
Invite me into the world you imagine.
Sometimes an image begins long before it becomes a painting—as a memory, a feeling, a person, a place, or simply something difficult to put into words.
If you have been carrying an idea that you would like to see given form, allow me to enter that world with you. A commissioned painting begins as a conversation: you bring the first spark, and I bring my way of seeing, interpreting, and painting.
Together, we discover what the image wants to become.
Tell me what you imagine