Maria is a Melbourne based artist. Her work explores femininity, through psychedelia and surrealism as well as themes of intuition, fertility and the sensitive relationship of the female psyche to nature. Her characters are often anthropomorphic embodiments of natural, physical and esoteric concepts and entities. Through her creative process she shapes abstract and esoteric ideas and beings into living, visceral forms.
Maria’s work re appropriates pop culture icons, transplanting familiar characters and stories into psychedelic and surreal states and scenarios and augmenting the inherent surreality and absurdity of pop-culture.
She takes inspiration from a range of sources, from traditional children’s illustrations and fantasy, to '80s animation and Kawaii culture. Her oeuvre forms an eclectic pastiche, spanning from saccharine psychedelia to muted, ethereal strangeness.