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.
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Big Green, 2024acrylic on linen160cm x 130cm (63.0" x 51.2")
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Big Summeracrylic on linen140cm x 200cm (55.1" x 78.7")
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Black White Ultramarine, 2024acrylic on linen160cm x 130cm (63.0" x 51.2")
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Blue Field, 2024acrylic on linen160cm x 130cm (63.0" x 51.2")
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Blue in Blue, 2024acrylic on linen170cm x 140cm (66.9" x 55.1")
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Blue in Wales, 2023acrylic on linen160cm x 130cm (63.0" x 51.2")
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Blue Note, 2024acrylic on linen160cm x 130cm (63.0" x 51.2")
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Blush, 2024acrylic on linen170cm x 140cm (66.9" x 55.1")
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Copenhagen, 2024acrylic on linen130cm x 160cm (51.2" x 63")
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Indigo Blue, 2024acrylic on linen160cm x 130cm (63.0" x 51.2")
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June in Wittem, 2024acrylic on canvas170cm x 140cm (67" x 55")
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Little Wales Green, 2023acrylic on linen70cm x 60cm (27.6" x 23.6")
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. |
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