Manuela Valenti, is a self-taught contemporary artist, model and entrepreneur from Venezuela currently living in the US. One of the most versatile and vibrant contemporary artist in the world today. Throughout her almost entire life Valenti has been creating art in various forms, from glass, to painting and sculpting setting her as one of the most prolific and unconventional modern artists today. Selling online since 1999, Valenti has sold her original paintings and glass sculptures to over 1500 collectors on each state in the Continental US, Hawaii, Canada, Venezuela, Colombia, Brazil, Argentina, Spain, UK, Netherlands, Italy, France, New Zealand, Australia, Sweden and Japan among others.

Valenti works in a variety of mediums, creating the impression to the viewer that there are more than one artist in her studio, while the reality is that she's the only creator of her vast array of works. She's not afraid to pick up a brush and let her hand, memories and emotions flow.

Valenti has exhibited on galleries and international shows in New York, High Point, Atlanta, Miami, Chicago, Michigan, Spain, Italy and Venezuela. Because of her vast array of works Valenti's works are collected by people from all walks of life, from the entrepreneur, to the corporate manager all the way to the house wife, architect, art dealer and interior designer. Due to the nature of her works she shares two completely separate groups of collectors, the ones that love her abstract art and the ones that love her landscapes and figurative works.

"It's funny but my collectors are separated in two groups if you will. I have collectors who just die for my abstract art but don't quite enjoy the representational work, and I have collectors who just plain hate my abstract art but drool over my figurative and landscapes. It is a weird and enjoyable feeling for me knowing that I have such distinctive collectors, and I wouldn't want it any other way."

Valenti's works are vibrant and emotionally charged, whether they represent a landscape, a pick into the people she happens to come across in everyday scenes or an abstract explosion of emotions. Valenti's abstract art focuses on her struggles and quite often deal with the positive and negative. There is a constant battle perceived in her works of light against dark.... good against evil  that render them as positive and uplifting. An extensive world traveler, Valenti has lived in Venezuela, South America, Italy, Spain and France and visited many places from which she gathers the necessary inspiration both visual and emotional necessary for her works.

"I need the emotional explosion that my abstract art gives me, they represent my wild rebel Aries side if you will, while I enjoy the classical calm impressionist style of my figurative art and modern landscape oil paintings. My creative process is not easy and is painful at times as my emotions and deep feelings are yanked out of me and glued onto the canvas as an intangible form of expression. Its not just splashing paint to make a good looking abstract painting to hang above a fireplace, for me it has to be more than just paint, solvents and canvas. I release an incredible amount of energy on each abstract painting while I look for peace and a centered life when painting a landscape or someone I saw on the street. Most of the times I don't know when I'm done with the painting, especially with my abstract art and I need to leave my studio and distract my mind with something else, but when I come back again an hour or a day later I know what to do".

In September of 2006 Valenti joined the worldwide movement A Painting a Day, a Daily Painting discipline started by Duane Keiser and followed by many artists like Julian Merrow-Smith, Karin Jurick, Michael Naples and many others. The idea of creating one small affordable painting everyday and offer it directly from her blog was not new to the artist, but was a great opportunity again to tap into many other subjects otherwise she wouldn't have adventured on like figurative works which later in early 2007 became her passion.

Her impressionist works are the reflection of her inspiration for life and nature itself. Quite often when asked for her source of inspiration Valenti explains "inspiration is everywhere, on anything we see, touch and breath. Our life is filled with masterpieces, where anything and everything can become a painting, I just happen to look a little closer and pick the ones I like best."