Overview

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.

 

"I can work with colours as a starting point, or a certain rhythm with forms, but it is the feeling that I have about exactly that moment and sentiment that I want to reflect and that is always more important than the purely visible state of the painting." 

 

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.

Works
  • Bring the Spring
    Bring the Spring, 2025
    acrylic on linen
    140cm x 240cm (55" x 94")
  • Cherry Blossom in Wittem
    Cherry Blossom in Wittem, 2025
    acrylic and oil on jute
    140cm x 100cm (55" x 39")
  • Evening Light
    Evening Light, 2025
    acrylic on linen
    160cm x 200cm (63" x 79")
  • Field in Wittem
    Field in Wittem, 2025
    acrylic on linen
    170cm x 140cm (67" x 55")
  • Light Blue in the Fields
    Light Blue in the Fields, 2025
    acrylic on linen
    200cm x 140cm (79" x 55")
  • Little Silver
    Little Silver, 2025
    acrylic on jute
    100cm x 80cm (39" x 31")
  • Little Wittem Field
    Little Wittem Field, 2025
    acrylic on linen
    50cm x 40cm (20" x 16")
  • March Grey Sky
    March Grey Sky, 2025
    acrylic on linen
    140cm x 200cm (55" x 79")
  • Soft Blue Field
    Soft Blue Field, 2025
    acrylic and oil paint on linen
    140cm x 100cm (55" x 39")
  • White Willow Trees
    White Willow Trees, 2025
    acrylic and pencil on linen
    140cm x 100cm (55" x 39")
  • Willow Trees
    Willow Trees, 2025
    acrylic and oil paint on linen
    170cm x 140cm (67" x 55")
  • Wittem February
    Wittem February, 2025
    acrylic and oil paint on linen
    30cm x 40cm (12" x 16")
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Biography

Currently based in the Netherlands, Nuria Maria completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the

Academy of Fine Arts Maastricht NL in 2014, and has since regularly exhibited in group and solo shows throughout Europe.

 

EDUCATION
2002-09  Pre-university education, Stella Maris College -  Meersse, Netherlands.
2009

Cultural Studies, UvA - Amsterdam, Netherlands.

2010

Psychology, Tilburg University - Tilburg, Netherlands.

2011-14

BA Fine Art, Academy of Fine Arts - Maastricht, Netherlands.

 
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 'Tule Tänne | Come Here', Cadogan Gallery, Milan, Italy.
2021 'Out of the Blue', Alzueta Gallery, Barcelona, Spain.
2020 'Solo Exhibitions', Palau de Casavells, Girona, Spain.
2019 'Art The Hague', Galerie Post & García.The Hague, Netherlands.
2019    'KunstRAI Amsterdam', Galerie Post+García, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 

2019   

Kunstdagen Kasteel Wittem, Netherlands.

2019

'A cure for Melancholy', Galerie 42b, Paris, France.

2019

'MOA Utrecht', Utrechtse wonderkamers, Museum Oud Amelisweerd, Bunnik, Netherlands.

2018

'Icarus Revisited', Galerie Post+García, Maastricht, Netherlands.

2018

'A presence of light', Galerie Post+García, Maastricht, Netherlands.

Press