Maria Rogers

Maria Rogers

London, Earlsfield, United Kingdom

About Maria Rogers

Maria Rogers Mixed Media Artist e: nusew02@gmail.com t: 07531284814 www.mariaroart.uk instagram: @mariaroart.uk Maria's work has been collected in the US, UK and Europe. She has exhibited at The Mall Galleries London and The South West Academy of Fine & Applied Arts, amongst others. She currently passed the first round for entry to The Royal Hibernian Exhibition, Dublin (2020) with "Somebody Loves Me” and The Mall Galleries with “About to Rain….” In March 2020 she received a Special Merit for her painting "Winter" from Light Space Time online art gallery. Her work aims at a realism/abstract style aiming to capture a mood or memory. She is drawn to pattern and simplification and playing with words. Her sculptures, however, often stem from experimenting with materials, such as the whimsical “Knitter’s Chair”. Recently, she has been inspired by Beatrix Potter’s tale of the “Tailor of Gloucester” resulting hopefully in a soft sculpture of the tailor in the future. Maria was born in Dublin and moved to London in the 1980s. Her artistic experience covers drawing, painting, and textile art, resulting in a mixed-media approach. In 2008 She received a Distinction for her final studies in textile art while at Windsor College, U.K. After working from a small studio in her back garden she was delighted, when in 2013, she set up a studio at Wimbledon Art Studios, Earlsfield, London, where she combines her previous artistic experiences; resulting in a diverse style. Inspiration has been drawn from the Dhunami teachings (dhunami.org) and researching artists such as Mach, Matisse, Klimt, Sonya Delaunay and Claes Oldenburg.

Education:

Mostly self-taught in drawing and painting from an early age with private tuition in portrait painting in Dublin. Maria also extended her curiosity about media by studying textile art at East Berkshire College, Windsor Campus where she received Distinction in her final studies 2003.

Events:

2020
Won "Special Merit" for landscape "Winter" from Light, Space & Time "Abstracts" competition to enter their online exhibition beginning March 1.

Royal Hibernian Society accepted for first round "Somebody Loves Me".

New English Art Club, Mall Galleries, accepted for first round "About to Rain..."

Exhibitions:

2020
Light, Space & Time Special Merit for "Winter" in "Abstracts" competition to enter online exhibition starting March 1.

2019
May
Wimbledon Arts Open Studios
November
Wimbledon Arts Open Studios

2018
May
Wimbledon Arts Open Studios
September
Society of Women Artists
Mall Galleries, London

2017
May
Wimbledon Arts Open Studios
October
Wimbledon Open Studios
November
South West Academy of Applied Arts, Devon

2016
May
Wimbledon Open Studios
October
Wimbledon Open Studios
August
Summer Salon II, Candid Arts, London

2015
May
Wimbledon Open Studios
August
Summer Salon II, Candid Arts, London

2014
October
Wimbledon Open Studios