Born and raised in Kona, Villanueva displayed a tendency toward the arts was apparent by age 6. While attending school in Ohio as a teen, she was introduced to the works of Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse, whose distinctive, abstract techniques would years later become a driving influence in her own artistic expression.
Upon her return home in 1990, a rekindled passion for abstract and cubist art inspired her to put paint to canvas in late 1996. Within a year, her work would debut at a public showing and gained islandwide recognition in January 1997 with a featured television segment on "Hawaiian Moving Company" that dubbed her a "Picasso Painting Prodigy."
Today, Villanueva's works hang in private collections across the country and around the world. All of her work is created exclusively in Hawaii where her prolific style and exotic, artistic vision have earned her recognition as one of the island's most unique neo-cubist artists.
My Favorite Song : "Across the Universe" by Fiona Apple.
