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Too Big For New York
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Too Big For New York (2026)
Original Linocut Print
Hand-pulled linocut on archival premium paperPerched above the endless geometry of the city, Too Big for NY captures the tension between ambition and exhaustion, intimacy and isolation. A solitary figure stands at the edge of the skyline, coat caught in the wind like a flag of survival, while below the city stretches endlessly outward: dense, relentless, electric. Beside her, a quiet white cat watches in silence, grounding the scene with a strange tenderness, as if guarding a private moment the city was never meant to witness.
This piece reflects the emotional architecture of New York itself: the hunger to become larger than fear, larger than limitation, yet still searching for a place soft enough to land. The title speaks not to physical scale, but to emotional magnitude. To outgrow the pressure. To realize your inner life no longer fits neatly inside the machinery of speed, expectation, and noise.
Hand-carved and printed through the traditional linocut process, the work embraces dramatic contrast, intricate mark-making, and the raw physicality of carved line. Every cut carries movement and tension, transforming rooftops, clouds, and shadows into rhythmic textures that echo both the pulse of the city and the interior landscape of the figure herself.
Printed on archival premium paper, this original work balances noir-like atmosphere with poetic stillness, making it a striking centerpiece for collectors drawn to contemporary printmaking, urban narratives, and emotionally charged visual storytelling. 🌒🐈⬛
Dimensions: 12 in x 16 in. Original artwork – printed on Archival premium paper.
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Snail & Butterfly
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Snail & Butterfly (2026)
Original Linocut Print
12 in × 16 in
Hand-pulled linocut on archival premium paperA quiet collision between gravity and flight. Snail & Butterfly explores two radically different tempos of existence sharing the same fragile world. The butterfly rises like a fleeting thought, luminous and untouchable, while the snail moves with ancient patience, carrying its entire home across the earth grain by grain. Together, they become a meditation on transformation, endurance, and the strange beauty of moving through life at your own rhythm.
Carved by hand and printed through the tactile traditions of relief printmaking, this original linocut embraces the expressive imperfections of the medium: rich blacks, textured cuts, and sharp contrasts that give the piece a cinematic intensity. The layered patterns and architectural shadows create a dreamlike tension between nature and structure, softness and survival.
Printed on archival premium paper, this work is both delicate and bold, designed to hold its presence in contemporary interiors, studios, libraries, or intimate personal collections.
Each print carries the unmistakable texture and physicality of handmade printmaking, where every carved line records the artist’s gesture like a visual heartbeat. 🦋🐌
Dimensions: 12 in x 16 in. Original artwork – printed on Archival premium paper.
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Oracle Rooster
Read more The Rooster Oracle (2025) is an homage to the rooster as a mythic herald straddling day and night, tradition and transformation. Against the skyline of New York City, the creature’s iridescent feathers shimmer with Caribbean heat—emerald, copper, and indigo—while its gaze fixes toward a rising moon. In Caribbean and Latin American folklore, the rooster is both guardian and messenger, crowing at thresholds between worlds. Here, it becomes an emblem of diasporic rhythm and survival: an ancestral clock reminding urban life of its rural pulse. The hybrid body—part bird, part scaled creature—symbolizes the layered identities of migration, faith, and cultural inheritance.
Dimensions: 12 in x 16 in. Original artwork on archival premium paper & canvas glicee
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Kind Fox
Read more Kind Fox (2025) presents the fox as a long symbol of cunning and adaptability—as an enlightened creature of empathy. Bathed in luminous gradients of coral and teal, the animal seems to glow from within, merging tropical light with a sense of inner stillness. In Caribbean folklore, fox-like figures often represent clever survival and quiet rebellion, traits mirrored here in the animal’s poised, almost meditative stance. The word “Kind” becomes a double meaning: both gentle and kin. In caribbean culture, the fox is rendered not as trickster or predator, but as kin—a being capable of feeling, reflecting, and coexisting. In its luminous silence, Kind Fox becomes an allegory for evolution through compassion, asking whether intelligence without empathy can ever be truly human.
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Eat a Bullfrog
Read more Eat a Bullfrog (2025) merges two potent archetypes—the bull and the frog—into a single mythic creature. The bull, symbol of power and virility, and the frog, emblem of transformation and rain, meet in a luminous body that pulses between masculine and amphibian, earth and water. Its posture echoes the sensual geometries of the Kama Sutra, suggesting balance between desire and meditation. Rendered in tropical gradients of coral, jade, and gold, the figure embodies the hybrid spirit of Indo-Caribbean culture, where Indian, African, and Taíno mythologies intertwine. The work re-imagines the creature as a cosmic mediator, linking fertility to consciousness, ritual to instinct. In its still gaze and poised form, The Bull-Frog Sutra asks how sensuality and spirituality coexist—and whether creation itself begins in the shared pulse of animal and human breath.
Dimensions: 12 in x 16 in. Original artwork – Digital painting printed on paper
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Kama-Lizard
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Kama-Lizard (2025) fuses eroticism and contemplation through a hybrid body reclaiming sensuality as wisdom. The entwined figures challenge patriarchal shame around female pleasure, positioning the lizard as philosopher rather than primitive. Within Caribbean feminist cosmologies, desire becomes resistance—a sacred intelligence bridging body, instinct, and spiritual sovereignty.
Dimensions: 12 in x 16 in. Original artwork – Watercolor on canvas paper
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We Were Animals Once
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We Were Animals Once (2025). This is a piece that envisions the layered realities of memory, culture, and place. Animals are our first toys (at least for some of us children of the 80’s) and memories of these tiny plastic tokens in the shape of animals that at that age we consider dangerous, but in playtime they become our friends. In the process they shape our personality into being separate from the animal, and denying or failing to see we are also animals. Because we are tiny we are larger and in control of the animal now shrunk into a toy. This piece reflects directly on the sense Beneath a vast moon that glows like a cosmic guardian, toy animals and a child’s doll gather before the skyline of Queens, New York. A parrot—emblem of migration and survival—watches over this surreal assembly, carrying Caribbean memory into the urban landscape. The painting bridges the intimacy of childhood with the complexity of adult identity, recalling a time when small plastic animals became our first companions. Through play, we learned dominance and tenderness, forgetting that we too are animals. The layered composition—part dream, part recollection—merges nostalgia, diaspora, and ecological awareness. The toys, both fragile and eternal, speak to the persistence of imagination, the separation from innocence, and the universality of play. In the end, the work reminds us that our earliest understanding of kinship began with creatures, real and imagined, who continue to shape the stories of who we are. Childhood never leaves us, yet we become separate from it as adults. But in the end, as in the beginning, we all play with the same toys.
Dimensions: 48 in x 54 in. Original artwork painting. oil on canvas, some mixed media.
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DISCLAIMER: All Paintings and images here are original artworks, property of this website, copyrighted and owned by Loli Mari Montalvo. Arcrylis. oils and/or mixed media are realized on canvas, linen, masonite and other materials (acrylic glass, wood, and metal) All digital works are also the property of the artist and are available for sale. This collection of artworks is meticulously printed with archival inks for lasting vibrancy. I work with a printer and we use fade-resistant, pigmented inks offer superior color range, favored by fine art and photography enthusiasts worldwide. We also provide Archival Premium Paper, and other professional-grade fine art and photo papers to choose from, so the prints resist yellowing and aging, ensuring longevity and quality.
Prints: Each project’s unique details are provided upon the purchase transaction. Then you can choose from preferred sizes or customize up to 40×60 inches. In addition to paper, we offer printing on acrylic glass, wood, and metal—providing versatile options to suit any space or style. Discover the difference of archival ink printing on premium materials—elevate your surroundings with timeless artworks today. This print comes out in stunning color!
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Caffeinated Morning Owl
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Caffeinated Morning Owl (2025) This is a highly stylized, anthropomorphic owl clutching a white coffee cup.
I love owls and all that they represent: wisdom and reverence. I think of myself as an owl each morning holding my cup, reminded of all the wisdom that is already inside of me waiting to be explored.I hope to be able to share the spirit of the owl and owning your value through inner reverence, and uncover your innate wisdom.
Dimensions: 18 in x 36 in (45 x 91 cm) Original artwork, digital painting
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Caribbean Birds I Neo-Cubism
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Caribbean Birds (2024). This project had me cooking up a cubist-style vibrant depiction of birds, rendered in a dynamic, geometric style. They represent the vibrant spirit of the Caribbean. With their feathers, a blend of blues, oranges, reds, and yellows, intertwine in a dance of sharp, angular lines. The background, a mosaic of geometric shapes, enhances the depth and movement, reflecting the inter-connectedness of nature’s forms. In a Cubist manner, the painting fragments reality, presenting a modern, kaleidoscopic vision. The bold colors and abstract patterns invite contemplation on the harmony and complexity of the natural world, capturing a moment of interaction that transcends the ordinary. Inspired in the birds of the Caribbean region!*This is an Analog to Digital Artwork; pencil drawings available.
Artist’s proof print. This is a print of the original artwork digital painting. It is printed in premium Glicee paper. Available on canvas as well.
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Caribbean Birds
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Caribbean Birds (2020) Is a digital painting that depicts a vibrant, abstract scene with a focus on stylized birds amidst a colorful, dynamic background. The birds are depicted in a fluid, artistic manner with exaggerated features and vivid colors. I decided to use primary colors in the image to achieve warm oranges, reds, and yellows, contrasted by cooler greens and blues.
The style is reminiscent of a modern, abstract painting with a blend of surrealism. The use of sweeping, curvilinear lines and organic shapes gives the composition a sense of movement and liveliness. The background features a mix of soft, blended colors and sharp, defined lines, adding depth and complexity to the overall piece. The image evokes a sense of freedom and natural beauty, captured through an imaginative and artistic lens.
Dimensions: 36 in x 48 in, custom sized.
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Quixote II
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Quixote II 2024. Analog – Digital Print. Step into a surreal series of prints featuring Don Quixote de La Mancha, created with a blend of analog color pencil drawings and digital enhancement. Each piece uniquely interprets this iconic literary figure, showcasing vibrant colors, intricate details, and fantastical elements that transport viewers into a dreamlike landscape. Printed on high-quality archival paper using advanced giclée technology, these artworks ensure superior detail and color reproduction. Available in custom sizes, they make a striking addition to any space, inviting viewers to explore the rich imagination of Don Quixote’s world.
*This is part of a 3-piece series available together, printed in glass and framed Dimensions: 16 x 24 inches.
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Moving Lights of the Caribbean
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Moving Lights of the Caribbean (2024) Digital Painting. I love creating artwork that presents the breathtaking tropical paradise, that is Puerto Rico. I take photographs that then make perfect templates to paint over digitally! Here is where the harmony between land and sea is vividly captured. The joy is to look above the water, to the sky is a canvas of warm oranges and pinks, suggesting a serene sunset, while lush green foliage and swaying palm trees frame the scene, creating a sense of secluded tranquility. I love how in the water we can see below the surface! To be able to capture the clear turquoise waters that reveal a lively aquatic world teeming with fish, swimming amongst coral reefs; to capture how he sun’s rays penetrate the water, creating dancing patterns on the sandy sea floor and highlighting the vivid colors of the marine life. This image evokes a feeling of peace and the beauty of untouched natural environments.
Suggested print dimensions: 24 x 32 in
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Mother Colors
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Las Tetas de Cayey 2024
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Las Tetas de Cayey 2024. Digital Painting
Puerto Rico is the perfect setting and stage for these works to encapsulate the essence of the island’s vibrant culture and stunning landscapes. Every canvas vibrates with Caribbean rhythm! With vivid brushstrokes and dynamic compositions, the intention is to transport you to the serene shores of this paradise!
The scene is inspired on the morning lights over the mountains of Cayey and it’s iconic duo commonly known as las Tetas de Cayey.
Dimensions: 36 in x 24 in
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Gouache Series – Waldo
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Where’s Waldo? (2023) Digital Gouache Media
A vibrant and colorful landscape filled with whimsical creatures and plants in the style of a psychedelic garden! I created a series of scenes that includes natures’ totality: rivers, mountains, forests, clouds, stars, rainbows, plants, animals, patterns, etc. But the main inspiration were the Elephants. I wanted to give them a fantastical, psychedelic and surreal space.This is an abstract artwork that uses contrasting bold colors and patterns to create depth and texture. It has a dreamlike quality with soft lighting that casts gentle shadows on its surface. These are available in a variety of papers!Quick View -
Gouache Forest Triptic
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