Maria Pelton

My work is a combination of quirky, strange, unexpected and sometimes sinister characters that emerge and develop from looking at unusual oddities of shapes in nature and in inanimate objects. I am inspired by imagining their different personalities and worlds and seeing how random juxtapositions appear from combining them together.

I am interested in how a shape, object or creature can inherit a life and personality on the page, believing that they can have an imagined persona. These representations within my work are a mischievous reflection of the variety of human personalities and characters found in everyday life.