Meet Maria

Artist Statement

I’m a mixed media artist exploring nature, memory, and meaning through textured layers, expressive realism, and hand-drawn mark-making.

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My work weaves together florals, nature, and whimsy with vintage and antique elements—pieces that feel like they’ve lived a life before reaching my hands. I’m often drawn to small, meaningful objects like grandma’s china, worn books, old papers, and inherited keepsakes. These fragments carry stories. They remind me what it feels like to be loved, safe, and seen, and how those experiences shape the way we see and move through the world.

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At the heart of my work is a quiet but powerful thread: reclaiming voice. I’m interested in the space between silence and expression. Through layered materials and intuitive mark-making, I create work that transforms what was once hushed into something visible, felt, and shared.

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Art journals and sketchbooks are central to my practice. They’re where I discover, play, and grow. Through line, space, texture, collage, and layered process, I gather memories and materials—sometimes messy, sometimes delicate, but always honest. These pages become the foundation for my larger mixed media works, balancing representational abstraction, structure and freedom.

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Guided by a search for meaning and a belief in renewal, I create thoughtfully and reflectively. I’m drawn to the quiet truth that beauty often lives in the in-between—in what is worn, remembered, and restored.

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My hope is that my art offers warmth and stillness, while also creating space—for voice, for truth, for belonging. A place to dream, to remember, and to reconnect with joy, imagination, and the freedom to be fully seen.