Loretta Burgos Pena, known as Loretta Pena, was born and raised in the United States of America. She is a self-taught visual artist who started her path in art by chance. Due to a job that demanded more than she could handle,, she turned to painting to relieve stress. She credits art therapy for saving her life. Now a full-time painter, her artistic work focuses the wide array of human emotions and her love for humanity. These subjects are very personal, and dear to her soul and are expressed in all of her paintings