De La Vega Fine Art & Imagery

11/03/2025

“I dream my paintings, and then they paint my dreams.”
- Vincent Van Gogh

03/27/2024

01/31/2023

The Evening Star

“Stars are born from chaos. They are born only after they first collapse. So my beautiful friend, when you find yourself collapsing, when you find yourself lost in the midst of chaos and confusion, know that it’s because a new beginning is coming.”
- Nikki Banas

01/12/2023

“If the foot of the trees were not tied to the earth, they would be pursuing me. For I have blossomed so much, I am the envy of the gardens.” - Rumi

Let me begin 2023 with the first of my tribute series this year to Alphonse Mucha, the Czech painter, artist, and illustrator whose revolutionary works fired the art nouveau aesthetic. My gratitude goes out to Maya, my model and friend, for working with me on this and so many other wonderful photos taken during our shoot. Thank you for helping me find my inspiration again.

12/02/2020

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where, I love you directly without problems or pride: I love you like this because I don’t know any other way to love, except in this form in which I am not nor are you, so close that your hand upon my chest is mine, so close that your eyes close with my dreams.”

- Neruda

04/30/2018

“Cause if we knew where we belong, there’d be no doubt where we’re from. But as it stands, we all need the truth, especially me and probably you...definitely you.”
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The wistfulness of my heart was brought to life here by Rhiannon, a vision of Venus herself.
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12/24/2017

www.xavierdelavega.com

My artwork is the aggregate sum of experiences and influences. I was born and raised in NJ, but then moved far away in the winter of '92, only to come home again in 2003. In that time, there was great joy in expressing the world around me through my lens. When I was a boy, I was fascinated with phot...