Maria is a multidisciplinary artist working at The Camp Studios on Gundungurra and Dharawal Country. She studied painting at Sydney College of the Arts under Lindy Lee. Since then she has held several solo exhibitions, and has participated in many group shows. Her work is held in private collections locally and internationally and has been hung in art prizes, including twice in The Portia Geach Memorial Award. She has been awarded several prizes for drawing from The Royal Art Society. Also a writer, Maria was awarded a Litlink Residency at Varuna in 2018. Her paintings explore the relationship between an interior landscape of symbols and mythology, and the experience of reality encoded in representation. She has a powerful interest in art history, and in experimenting with different media. Her current work explores these ideas through engagement with the landscape of The Southern Highlands.