Growing up in a family of artists, Nuria Maria has been immersed in art from a young age. After multiple visits to Italy, surrounded by incredible paintings, churches, and frescos, Nuria decided to study what she loves most in life: art.

In her early career, Nuria’s paintings were predominantly figurative, experimenting also with music and video installations. Since then, her work has grown increasingly abstract, attempting to capture the atmosphere of a certain moment, a day in the season, a memory, or a certain type of light. The colours carry the atmosphere and the interaction between subjects: they attract or push, float, fall, fly or are blown out of the painting itself.

Her vivid and captivating works draw the viewer in: they present an interplay of color surfaces that are delimited from each other and flow into each other, coloristic compositions, contrasts, and harmonies. Precise brushstrokes reveal themselves only upon closer inspection: They reveal the connection between nature, human sensibility, and the infinite variety of light and mood.

The weather and the changeability of nature play a central role in Maria’s work – she wants to bring to life the atmosphere of a particular moment and thus a deeply felt emotion or memory. For her, the mood she conveys in her paintings is more important than the purely visual aspect of her work. The artistic process is thereby a constant play between the external impression and the inner feeling. She sees herself as a kind of“camera obscura”, preserving these sensations and bringing them to light again in her work.

Nuria’s work captures a moment to the core. It is about love, home, and the landscapes we find ourselves in. She seeks to capture the essence of a moment in time, the music we hear when we are alone, when we drive, walk, think, travel, miss, or when we want to get somewhere; the comfort of arriving wherever we feel at home.