Overview

Growing up in a family of artists, Nuria Maria was born in the Netherlands in 1990 and art was always around for her. After multiple visits to Italy, she decided to study what she loves most in life.

 

At first Nuria's paintings were more figurative, then slowly the subjects became more and more abstract, while the weather has always been a significant part of her works. The artis attempts to capture the atmosphere of a certain moment, a day in the season, a memory, a certain type of light. The colours carry the atmosphere and the interaction between the subjects: they attract or push, float, fall, fly or are being blown out of the painting itself.

 

"I can work with colours as a starting point, or a certain rhythm with forms, but it is the feeling that I have about exactly that moment and sentiment that I want to reflect and that is always more important than the purely visible state of the painting" she explains. 

 

This is why it can take either one day or a whole month to get the canvas exactly the way Nuria needs it to be; she can find it pretty, but it must catch a moment in the core. Her work is about love, home, and the landscapes we find ourselves in. There is an undertone throughout of the music we hear when we are alone, when we drive, when we walk, when we think, when we travel, when we miss, when we want to get somewhere. To get there in that place; that feld where we feel home: where you - come here.

Works
Exhibitions
Biography

Currently based in the Netherlands, Nuria Maria completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the

Academy of Fine Arts Maastricht NL in 2014, and has since regularly exhibited in group and solo shows throughout Europe.

 

EDUCATION
2002-09  Pre-university education, Stella Maris College -  Meersse (NL)
2009

Cultural Studies, UvA - Amsterdam (NL)

2010

Psychology, Tilburg University - Tilburg (NL) 

2011-14

BA Fine Art, Academy of Fine Arts - Maastricht (NL)

 
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021 'Out of the Blue', Alzueta Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
2020 'Solo Exhibitions', Palau de Casavells, Girona, Spain
2019 'Art The Hague', Galerie Post & García.The Hague, NL
2019    'KunstRAI Amsterdam', Galerie Post+García, Amsterdam, NL

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 

2019   

Kunstdagen Kasteel Wittem, NL

2019

'A cure for Melancholy', Galerie 42b, Paris, France

2019

'MOA Utrecht', Utrechtse wonderkamers, Museum Oud Amelisweerd, Bunnik, NL

2018

'Icarus Revisited', Galerie Post+García, Maastricht, NL 

2018

'A presence of light', Galerie Post+García, Maastricht, NL

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