Maria Gabriela Abdala

Texture is an essential part of my work. It helps me bring out the intrinsic expression in my paintings. It is wet while I work, and I really enjoy the spontaneous expression it takes on as it dries. I try to use colours in a fairly transparent way that lets the texture speak for itself.

My pictures are images and reflections of my interior world, given form as abstract imaginary places, coming to me through meditative contemplation. Perhaps these "imaginary places" change, go and return overtime. The memories of the Atlantic Ocean, when I was a girl, and the Mediterranean sea, more recently, they are the visual language through which I communicate through my pictures. Those pale browns and the colours of the earth may reflect my recent time away from the sea.


La textura en mis cuadros es una parte esencial de mi obra. Es una expresión muy intrínseca que ella me ayuda a mostrar. Está mojada cuando la trabajo, y se seca y toma una expresión espontánea que yo la disfruto mucho. Los colores, trato de usarlos con cierta transparencia que deje a la textura hablar por ella misma.

Mis pinturas son imagenes y reflecciones de mi mundo interior que las puedo mostrar con lugares abstractos imaginarios. Llegan a mi con profunda...

I said above.

I did few art shows in Buenos Aires, before i came to live in UK , in Estimulos De Bellas Artes,1985,1986,1987,1988, where i study art, and, i had 5 years tutorials classes with Federico Manuel Peralta Ramos, who was winner of the Guggenheim prize, and activelly participated in the Instituto Di Tella in Buenoas Aires.After few years of live in London, i start study art in Morley College, and I win the participation of the annual show in the Morley Gallery, after that, i share a art show in Chelsea Gallery. Im part of Art Brigde, what is part of the Hay Hill art gallery in Cork Street, now, im part of Saatchi on Line. At the moment, I am in conversations with the Argentina Embassy, to do a show of my art work , and a art show argentinian restorant ,Santa Maria Del Sur, in Battersea. I did partcipate in the last Showdown at Saatchi on line .