About Maria
I am a landscape artist, painting plein air on location across Hampshire and the south coast. My work is mainly comprised of oil studies painted in the local countryside of Hampshire and the South Downs where I live.
When painting outside, I work quickly and intuitively alla prima (Italian for ‘at once’). I like to work this way, it suits my style of painting and helps to keep my work loose and fresh.
I aim to capture that moment and the effects of colour and light in my paintings. Trying to convey not only what I see, but how standing in that place at a particular moment in time feels.
My studio work is based around larger pieces of work, including commissions and floral still life. I also use this time to paint from small studies and photographs when the weather will not permit me to paint outside.
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Exhibitions & Events Details
January 2025 - Works on Paper - The Gallery at Green & Stone, London,
October 2024 - Art For Youth, the Mall Galleries, London
September 2024 - Art Hub Battersea, London
June 2024 - Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London
October 2023 - Group Show - ‘Home’ ArtCan, The Department Store, London
October 2023 - Group Show - Art For Youth London, The Mall Galleries, London
August 2023 - Group Show - Petersfield Arts & Crafts Society, Petersfield
January - March 2023 - Artist in Residence at Madeleine’s Deli, Petersfield
September - October 2022 - Guest Artist at the Artisan’s Gallery, Chichester
August 2022 - Hampshire Open Studios, with the Courtyard Gallery, Petersfield
August 2022 - Group Exhibition with Petersfield Arts & Crafts Society, Petersfield
May 2022 - ‘Crab Apple Blossom’ Longlisted for the Holly Bush Painting Prize in the Figurative Arts category
May 2022 - Sussex Art Fair, Goodwood Racecourse, West Sussex
March 2022 ‘West Beach, Hayling’ Shortlisted for the RA Summer Exhibition
February - March 2022 - Exhibition in Gallery No30, Petersfield
November - December 2021 - Group Exhibition with Petersfield Arts & Crafts Society, Petersfield
October 2021 - Group Exhibition with Hampshire Artists Co-Operative, Stockbridge
September 2021 - Contemporary Art Fair Surrey, Exhibitor and Live Painting Demonstration
May - June 2021 - Painshill Art Fair - Group Exhibition at Painshill Park
October 2020 - Finalist in the Sussex Together Festival of the Arts Exhibition, Chichester with my painting ‘Chloe in a Field of Yellow’
August 2020 - ‘Summer River’ exhibited in the Knockout Lockdown Art Exhibition, Oxmarket Gallery, Chichester