About

Gina Ortiz is a Mexican contemporary artist, illustrator, and trained architect based in Canada. Her work investigates how personal history meets collective assumption, and how freedom functions as both a physical and creative force that shapes layered cultural identities.

Through a process-based painting practice, she constructs layers of colour, texture, and pattern to explore abstract concepts such as freedom, belonging, and selfhood.

Rooted in architectural thinking and shaped by years of working across cultures, Gina’s creative practice is grounded in both structure and spontaneity. Her paintings highlight the materiality of paint and the act of painting itself — working from abstraction and repetition to find patterns using diluted gouache and oil sticks on raw, un-stretched canvas.

These large-format works combine transparent washes, soft gestures, and repeating motifs that reference textiles, emotional atmospheres, and cultural memory. Each composition becomes an evolving balance between intuition and form — between feeling and the frameworks we live within.

Parallel to her studio work, Gina leads Love All Design, her illustration and visual storytelling studio. Under this practice, she creates thoughtful, expressive imagery for editorial, branding, textile, and cultural projects. Whether designing a print for public art, a scarf to celebrate a milestone, or an illustration for a publication, her voice remains consistent: tactile, human, poetic, and intentional.

Her approach to abstract expressionism is deeply personal — not only as a formal language, but as a way to explore freedom: the freedom to migrate, to reinvent, and to reclaim layered cultural identities. In both her artwork and her design practice, Gina embraces imperfection, silence, repetition, and rhythm as creative tools.

Her work has been exhibited and collected across Canada, and selected for public art programs by the DVBIA and the City of Vancouver.