Unlike many other Dominican artists,[citation needed] her works are created in oil paint, using a more traditional European-style, many times depicting life as birth, existence and death within her flowers.

She attended the Mahatma Gandhi secondary school in Santo Domingo and after graduation, moved to New York City, to join her parents who had immigrated a few years prior.

Today, many people associate Peguero art as only tropical or island oriented, but much of her work and training focused on mastering traditional architectural, botanical and landscape methods with her early paintings often being completed in and around the Lake District in England.

[5] In 2007, the case was presented that even today, many Dominican children in rural areas are not exposed to and do not have the opportunity to learn fine arts such as painting, sculpture, poetry and story writing.

One of the programs currently under implementation by the foundation is to supply rural schools with a set of Spanish language art books that cover painting, sculpture, poetry and story writing.