Mayra Rivera-Pinto was born in El Salvador, where much of her childhood was spent on her grandmother’s coffee farm and enjoyed playing in the woods and living in nature. The idea of losing that memory became desperate in her heart when she returned to her homeland in 2015 and saw with heartbreak the devastation at the capital and the mountains where the coffee farm was located; she began painting her first collection titled “Ongoing Battle” where she shows the struggle between those who want to remove forests and built houses, and those who try to preserve as many trees as possible. With this precept, the artist promotes the salvation of the trees in a comic form by painting green figures in action.
In her quest to present a bleak panorama where there are no trees, Mayra has created a series of eleven paintings titled “And then there were none”, in which a tree is removed from view in each painting.
Walking through the countryside has always been a great tonic for the artist, as well as inspiration for the creation of all her artistic artwork of trees and flowers.

Mayra Rivera-Pinto studied art at Art Atelier Academy in Miami, Fl. in 2010, having exhibited her art at Coral Gables. When she moved to Tampa, Fl. in 2013 her imagination began to take flight that is showed in the collection of flowers with human figures in its pistils, representing daily life, but beyond the superficiality of the beauty of flowers, is the relationship or connection that human beings have with nature, which without it, humanity would perish.