
Announcement Thank you so much for coming to view my artwork. Please, favorite my shop to get a notice each time I add new pieces to my collection. You can also follow me on Facebook and Instagram under Esperanza Paints & Stuff.
Announcement
Thank you so much for coming to view my artwork. Please, favorite my shop to get a notice each time I add new pieces to my collection. You can also follow me on Facebook and Instagram under Esperanza Paints & Stuff.
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Reviews
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isis on Jan 13, 2022
5 out of 5 starsThese are adorable, and if I don't wear them myself, they will decorate my tree in future holidays.
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cf4life3334 on May 20, 2021
5 out of 5 starsBeautiful painting....even better in person. Fast delivery. Very happy with my purchase!
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Lois on Feb 8, 2021
5 out of 5 starsAnother beautiful piece of art work to add to my collection! Thank you for a 5 star transaction and for the care you took to see that the painting arrived to me safe and sound!! Lois
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wendybecker on Jan 19, 2021
5 out of 5 starsThese mushrooms are just lovely. Each one is a little sculpture, slightly different from the other. My husband wanted traditional red mushrooms for our tree, and now that we have them, I'll be very happy to hang them too! Thanks for such great pieces of artwork!
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Karen on Dec 31, 2020
5 out of 5 starsRealistic, attention to detail and painted beautifully, sculpted exquisitely. Could use better packaging a delicate frill broke. But I consider wild mushrooms aren't always perfect. I would be interested in purchasing more of the same and/or different species of mushrooms.
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Jill on Dec 29, 2020
4 out of 5 starsnicely done but was given miss class communication on amt bought!! products are well made!
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Ileana on Dec 26, 2020
5 out of 5 starsA piece of art! So realistic looking and beautiful! Arrived quickly, and I loved the little, artistic note the seller added.🍄
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Lynn on Dec 14, 2020
5 out of 5 starsIt is a beautiful piece!!! I Love it. will be ordering more from her.
About EsperanzaPaints
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This is my elf’s workshop. I’ve found making a dozen mushrooms at a time is the most efficient.
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Sculpting the final details on one of my mushroom ornaments. Then it’s baked, painted and sprayed with sealant.
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Definitely my most elaborate and challenging piece so far. A personal sacred space created for healing and meditation.
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Putting the finishing touches of paint on that last cactus, and this painting is ready for its varnish.
I’m a visual and performing artist, love creating, entertaining and traveling as often as possible.
I grew up in a small town in the foothills of Northern California, not far from Yosemite. The story goes that I’ve been painting since they were able to keep me from putting the brush in my mouth. My first art show was in a local bank when I was 5. (Those paintings were primitive at best.) As a child, most weekends were spent traveling the west cost powwow circuit with my father, who was an artist by trade. (It’s basically camping and operating a storefront at the same time, but there’s also fried bread, lots of drumming and dancing.) This gave me the rare opportunity be nurtured by some wonderfully kind Native elders and a perspective on Native American culture that few people get to experience.
As a teenager I became interested in performing arts and spent many years involved in all aspects of live theatre. At 18 I married a theater tech. After years of experiencing unexplained pain, I was diagnosed with fibromyalgia in my early twenties. Its a nerve pain disorder that still limits my activity and stamina. My marriage dissolved after 12 years, but not before having the two sweetest, most talented children one could ever wish for. Following the divorce my children moved with me to Costa Rica, a grand adventure that lasted more than seven years. In addition to many incredible experiences, we became fluent in Central American Spanish, which comes in quite handy.
In 2010 my children and I returned to our hometown and finished my degree in visual arts. For a time I worked as the director of the arts academy for our local arts council. I had the opportunity to reconnect with a legend from my childhood, BZ Smith. She's an award-winning storyteller and my childhood librarian. BZ became my mentor as a professional storyteller and I became a founding member of The Mother Lode Storytelling Guild.
My children are grown now. I relocated to the bay area in 2016. Here I rediscovered my love of creating visual art with sunset paintings. In November of 2020 I was inspired to make a mushroom ornament for myself and enjoyed it so much I just kept making them. By January those ornaments morphed into little mushroom people. Who knows where my next inspiration will come from, but for the moment I'm having fun sculpting these cheeky little characters and my Etsy customers are very pleased with them.
If you want to follow my performance work or hear what projects I'm currently up to, please check out my have a YouTube channel. There you'll find videos of my performances, travel vlogs and maker videos of my artwork. You can subscribe to get notified when I post new ones.
Thank you for your interest in my shop and my artwork.
Shop members
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Esperanza Phoenix
Owner
Visual and Performing Artist with an eclectic background, loves painting, storytelling, performing standup comedy traveling as often as possible.
Production partners
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Fine Art America
Santa Monica, CA
This is a drop shipping company that reproduces my artwork onto a variety of products: cards, notebooks, pillows, etc
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Print On Demand Dropshipper
NY, United States
Gooten is a print on demand company that reproduces my images on products like greeting cards, mugs, posters, etc.
Shop policies
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Returns & exchanges
I gladly accept returns
I don't accept exchanges or cancellations
The following items can't be returned or exchanged
- Custom or personalized orders
- Perishable products (like food or flowers)
- Digital downloads
- Intimate items (for health/hygiene reasons)
I accept returns I do not accept returns
I accept exchanges I do not accept exchanges
I accept cancellations I do not accept cancellations
Because of the nature of these items, unless they arrive damaged or defective, I can't accept returns for: