
Working from her studio overlooking the hills of the Limburg countryside, Nuria Maria explores a kind of contemporary impressionism in this new body of work entitled Zilver. Through the window, willow leaves are lit silver by the fading daylight, appearing almost as olive trees in the breeze. Through her painterly style, Nuria abstracts the natural forms that surround her, forming an ephemeral bridge between that which cannot be translated literally, like a shimmer over the trees, transforming the landscape through colour and shape into a moment of lightness, fleeting yet captured.
Nuria’s paintings act almost as an ode to the nature of time; everything passes, yet meaning is created at the point at which a moment, once captured, becomes a memory. Light is more of a subject in Nuria’s work than a material. It is itself an ungraspable moment. For Nuria, light and time become one—light situates a moment in the seasons, it emblematises the cycle of life. There is a sort of reminiscence in her work, of a feeling, the smell of spring, love, light, or sadness; a moment that briefly returns and is never quite gone—reliable and ever-present. This sense of openness, this happiness, this small intense feeling of luck is what the artist terms “silver”.

Growing up in a family of artists, Nuria Maria was born in the Netherlands in 1990 and art was always around for her. After multiple visits to Italy, she decided to study what she loves most in life.



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