Maria understands the quiet beauty of the English landscape and celebrates the subtle shifts in light through our unique and ever-changing seasons.
Maria Rose AROI is a British oil painter, with a contemporary take on the great British landscape painting tradition. Maria works mostly outside, from life, letting nature and the seasons guide her, attempting to capture the essence of a place or moment in time. Maria understands the quiet beauty of the English landscape and celebrates the subtle shifts in light through our unique and ever-changing seasons.
Maria was born in London in 1985 but has lived much of her life in the West Country. Maria currently lives in Devon. Maria graduated from University of Plymouth in 2007 with a BA Honours Fine Art (painting).
Maria has exhibited with the Royal Institute of Oil painters, the South West Academy, the Chelsea Art Society, the Royal Society of Marine Artists and the New English Art Club and is a member of the British Plein Air Painters. Prizes include the Julian Barrow Award for a Painting (CaS 2017) and Windsor and Newton Young Artist 2nd Prize (ROI 2017). Maria was a contestant on Sky Arts Landscape Artist of the Year 2018.
Maria was elected an Associate Member of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters (AROI) in 2022.