Visual artist Maria Matveyeva Follow.Art Card

About me

From early childhood I was in love with drawing and painting, and I refined my artistic skill through dedicated study.

My daily work has always been related to art, and I worked in such different areas as interior decorator and miniature painting. My paintings range from large-format canvasses to small, nuanced artworks.

I work in various techniques, including pastel drawing, watercolour and tempera, but my favourite is oil painting technique.

I love people and nature. I love painting them, love the play of light and darkness, and the lively playing of colours.

Mostly I paint using oil colours and watercolour. After learning the technique for painting icons, I fell in love with painting in layers.

Working in oil, I like to combine transparency with applying paint in dense brush strokes. This enables me to create depth and softness, to create a new dimension.