Maria Painting

Arantza, a 70 years old woman, is an artist to be discovered. She lives in the Basque Country in Spain,  where she was born. She lives now at the country side, where she paints every day, and where she also writes  poetry and diaries. She has been painting the last 25 years and now she wants to show her works to the world. In her paintings Rennaissance motifs highlight the humanistic character of her works without loosing the link with actual reality and facing the most tragic and bloody events such as war conflicts or immigration problems with a pictorial  gesture of hope almost naïve, but more than a naïve style It is an attitude naive but totally firm.  Most of her paintings  start from a naturalistic character.  In fact most of the paintings are  accompanied by text in a diary form or by poetry written by the artist whose complicated life is also reflected in these paintings as well as they are displayed  in his magnificent and numerous drawings,  but they don't stay there because she introduces realistic elements in an organic and natural manner giving this fashion a strong symbolic character which reminds in a certain way to the symbolism of Marc Chagall. She employs a different style or different force in her paintings depending on the motif she paints. She says it is not the same to paint a romantic scene or to reflect the suffering of war. On the other hand, she has received the recognition of a lifetime dedicated to art and painting with a scholarship in Germany for a period  of six months.  She lived in the Kunstlerhaus Warternau16. in Hamburg, and now she is thinking in donate her paintings to the town of Tolosa in the Basque country where she was born on the 24th of October, to create a museum with those paintings which relate the most important political events at the Basque country and all over the world during those  years,  as well as they reflect the different way of life of the human beens actually in this complicated actual world . Most of her works are in private collections and for the first time she is willing to present her works to the great public.