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MARIA LOPES
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Not Looking for Limitings Beliefs
In this new series of paintings, besides the obvious from its title, when I look at Nature, I try to express what I see and feel by going deeper in terms of freedom, discovery, techniques, color and lots of courage. For those who are artists, I guess the word courage is familiar when talking about creativity. Takes time to get to this level and mainly a lot of work and dedication to one’s art.
“To create one’s own world takes courage.”
Georgia O’Keeffe
Reflections on Nature
"Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, feel the future dissolve in a moment like salt in a weakened broth."
- Mary Oliver - Kindness
Perceptions
In a quest for paying attention and looking closer to nature around me, emerges this series of “Perceptions”. All these works talk about abstract landscapes that do not mirror Nature as it is, but as I see and feel it. The purpose is also to enable the viewer to navigate in his own imagination/memories when looking at these landscapes.
There’s so much to see if we pay attention…
“Pay attention, be astonished, tell about it.”
Mary Oliver
Postcards
The changing of the season is always beautiful and hard at the same time, but we should love Nature for what it is. Always truthful to itself.
Like we artists struggle with our work of art, Nature struggles with hers every single day. This is magnificent.
"A work of art is the trace of a magnificent struggle.”
Grace Hartigan
New Beginnings
In life we can have as many new beginnings as we want, and they can actually work if we are true to ourselves. I know this by experience.
This series I started in January/23 is dedicated to new beginnings and celebrates new paths in my art.
“Do the verb until you become the noun.”
By The Sea
This series of paintings is dedicated to my new surroundings and its nature. I moved recently to a small village near Ericeira and this body of work talks about my feelings and emotions in my walks when I’m confronted with the landscapes and seascapes, full of beauty and color. I paint what I see inside of me.
“Paint not what you see, but what you feel.”
AMIDST
