Maria Tribe

07718 497418
www.mariatribe.co.uk

Maria Tribe was born in Brighton and has been painting professionally since 1994. Her paintings are based on encounters which range from small moments in time to journeys around the world.

The work draws on history, stories, songs, monuments, the marking of events, and also the details of everyday life. There is a fascination with the process of memory and the fragments that remain. The work is a fusion of these triggers and a meditation on an experience or journey. Inspiration is derived from landscape, architecture, colour, music, language and people
from home to the Far East.

Growing up by the sea developed a passion for water, scuba diving and the luminous colours of underwater seascapes. The paintings are an extension of the sketchbooks which are central to the work and are often incorporated directly into the pieces using print and drawing techniques, giving them their diary-like quality. Drawings, photographs and collected materials are gathered together to later be used in the studio.

There is a balance and a tension between the looseness of paint and the more graphic qualities of drawings, print and photography. The process is very instinctive and the working process is very much about creating unconsciously, having a "conversation" with a piece, allowing elements to
emerge until a harmony is reached. Maria has completed many public and private commissions including six large paintings for Worthing and Southlands hospitals in Sussex in 2005.