Lola Fernández
Lola Fernández in Colombia is a leading Costa Rican teacher and abstract painter.Life
Fernández was born in Cartagena, Colombia in 1926 but she moved with her family to Costa Rica whilst still a child.
She became a professor at the University of Costa Rica. Her students included Virginia Pérez-Ratton. In 1980 her painting of a volcano was used on a Costa Rican stamp. She was given the Magón National Prize for Culture in 1995.
She was in the first wave of Costa Rican women artists that included Margarita Bertheau, Dinorah Bolandi and Sonia Romero. These four who all taught fine art at the University of Costa Rica are said to have created the second generation of Costa Rican women artists.
