Maria’s still-life, landscape and figurative works are her reference points for the beauty all around her. The daily ritual of drawing and painting has instilled in her a capacity to observe the world deeply and intuitively while the richness of her acquired knowledge lends itself to paintings that hold within them an essence of profound skill.

A masterly understanding of brushwork is subtly evident; light is gently orchestrated to illuminate subjects with realism alongside a delicate understory of foreboding which is carried by shadows and resonant expressions. This mediation between beauty and an infinitesimal suggestion of the sinister is what becomes Maria’s primary language, searing her works onto the memory of the viewer long after they have left them behind.