About Maria

Inspired by mid-century art and design, Maria’s pieces embrace a minimal aesthetic in which pared-back forms become a canvas for bold colour combinations. Through this her work explores aspects of the human condition, expressing personal and societal ideas around connection, relationships, boundaries and division.

Working primarily in clay but more recently also with paper and painted boards, her background in graphic design strongly informs her practice. The precision, materials, techniques and visual discipline developed through creating artwork on a drawing board continue to shape the way she works today. The beauty of clean lines has remained a lifelong fascination: from watching her father, a structural engineer, produce meticulous technical drawings by hand, to her own experience preparing hand drawn artwork for print. She she seeks to create equally precise lines in two and three dimensions with the materials she uses today. These lines act as boundaries that both contain and divide, connect and separate, defining forms and spaces within and around them.

Her matte ceramic surfaces are inspired by the tactile qualities of papers she used to specify for print, while her process reflects an ongoing dialogue between two and three dimensions. Working mainly with hand rolled clay slabs, paper and painted board, she uses colour to segment planes and investigate the relationship between geometric structure and organic form.

Produced in small series, the works are often arranged and rearranged to explore how forms and colours interact, always striving for harmonious compositions that unify disparate elements into a cohesive and balanced whole.

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