Anca Maria Ababei

Hello and welcome, I'm Maria, a self taught artist based in the beautiful city of Verona, Italy.

I have always been drawn to art, spending a lot of my childhood drawing and painting.
Watercolor was not my first love, but soon became my favorite medium, as I stared to discover its unique qualities. Painting with watercolor requires though and extra care and by letting the color flow into different wet surfaces in a relaxed manner, it can produce effects that make it look like it has a spontaneous life of its own. And this is why I find watercolor to be so special, the fact that it can be so unpredictable.

Animals are my favorite subject to paint, perhaps because I had the possibility to live in the countryside growing up, being surrounded by so many. This allowed me to appreciate their unique beauty and inspired me to reproduce them in an artistic form.

I truly hope that the painting you have chosen will bring you the same joy with which it was created.