Socorro Martínez is a Mexican Painter who was born in Monterrey, Nuevo León, México.  She has been painting since she was a child.  In 1991 she began her professional career as a painter, specializing in Pastels.

"As a child, I was drawn quite naturally to the arts but it was in painting that I found my life.  I have very little formal training, in part, because I began exhibiting my work shortly after starting art lessons.  Suddenly, doors opened, ideas arose, and situations came as if sent by God.  Throughout my career, I have been inspired to portray the world that surrounds me through a combination of real and imagined images filling my canvases with the intense, brilliant, and typically Mexican colors that mirror the emotions of my heart.  My life and my work intertwine.  In a way, all my works talk about love.  I concluded that love is the best reason to live.  Love in the Universal sense: love of nature, of objects, and of work itself.  I contemplate land and space, observe, paint, and feel a great love emerging from inside of myself."

Socorro Martínez defines her style as "Image Realism" with "Idealistic Tendencies," where lines and colors give a simple and immediate visual impression.  In her compositions, there is a total image recuperation in absolute autonomy, achieving a transgression of reality, where objects and the artist's magic world form the unity in her paintings.

There is a rupture between background and form, predominating her spirituality, freedom and fantasy.  In her paintings, there is a prevalence of Mexican topics and an intensity of color.

Originally, creating pastels, Socorro Martínez now paints with acrylics on canvas and other media.