La Catrina · Día de los Muertos
The Catrinas
Six monumental skulls, 52 pillars and a new collection of Catrina paintings — remembering as an act of love.
The series
The Art of Remembering
“Each painting begins as a dream… and becomes a world you can step into.”
La Catrina — the elegant skeleton of Mexico’s Day of the Dead (Día de los Muertos) — is a figure Jessica has painted for years across Mexico City and Tulum. In her hands the Catrina is crowned in roses, marigolds and monarch butterflies: a celebration of the people we carry with us, not a costume.
For the Seattle Catrina Festival 2026 she painted all six monumental skulls in Westlake Park and 52 architectural pillars over about seven weeks, exhibited October 30–November 1, 2026, where she also presented her latest collection of Catrina paintings.
Seattle Catrina Festival 2026
Monumental & public
Total Eclipse of the Heart, Dance Beyond the Veil and the festival skulls — plus Mexicráneos monuments in Mexico City.
Total Eclipse of the Heart
Dance Beyond the Veil
Monarch Catrina
Catrina portrait
Catrina in Bloom
Catrina eye
Catrina Kissed Seattle — studio
Total Eclipse of the Heart — skull
Dance Beyond the Veil — skull
Seattle gondola Catrina
El Corazón de Guadalupe
Every Catrina
The full Catrina archive
Paintings, details, festival skulls and Mexicráneos monuments — every Catrina image in the studio archive.
Bring a Catrina home — or to your city.
Original Catrina paintings, embellished prints and monumental public-art commissions. Write to start the conversation.