Silence, inhale Painting

My name is Maria. I am an artist currently living in West Flanders, Belgium. In the last couple of years my media of choice are oil and canvas, but I also like to work as a performer. I prefer a painting as medium, as a guide, using different kinds of materials and mixed media. I studied at an architectural university where we worked with collages and studied the principles of suprematism, constructivism, etc. with access to stencil compositions, cut and mixed Vasarely grids. I was influenced by immersion into the world of suprematism, and in general the study of the history and theory of design and architecture, however, in my art I only use such techniques to convey other meanings. When I work with painting, it is important for me to reflect the conflict of materials, as a combination of the traditional (past) with the bright present. I use contrasts of textures and colors to create tension in my work, sometimes a dramatic intensity. I like to combine contemporary and traditional techniques, and use additional materials such as plaster, textile, leather, nails and buttons. I often turn to the themes of memory, sensory experience, femininity and lost childhood, which I try to express in the form of abstract landscapes or imaginary spaces. For me, a landscape in abstraction has the same feeling of a place, only devoid of a narrative, a descriptive character. In a way, my works are containers of memory, described with the help of tangible texture, color, shape and movement.