Sculpting from intuition and emotion, Andi Mascareñas creates works that honor the culture, traditions and the spirit of the people she captures in clay. She finds energy immersing herself in different cultures, and her face lights up when she describes the magic that occurs when people gather around her when she works in the street: "The language, the smells, and the smiling faces of the children, with all their curiosity and wonderment of life, feed me with inspiration and excitement . . . creating becomes – and is – part of the very moment of that experience." She clearly loves to sculpt on location where she can connect directly with the personalities and individual nuances of the people she encounters.

She has not lost that childhood sense of wonder that filled her at age four, when she first saw impressionist paintings on black-and-white television. Those early images sparked an unquenchable thirst to draw, and set her on the course to be an artist at a remarkable early age.

Educated at Rocky Mountain College of Art & Design, where her interest in sculpture was developed, she continues to draw from the genius and sensitivity of the 19th century masters, and has deftly found her own way to express the spirit of her subjects with a representation, rather than exactness. She finds inspiration in all life experiences translates them, in some form, into her creations.

Although Colorado is her home, she has been selected for exhibitions in locations as far ranging as the Salmagundi Club in New York, the Birmingham (AL) Botanical Gardens, and Auvillar Tarn & Garonne, France. Her sculpture is in collections across North America and Europe.