Maria Floyd Abstract Paintings

Maria Floyd is a painter based predominantly in Devon and Cornwall and has been working from there for over 15 years. She studied the fine art/history of art BA Honors at Goldsmiths College in London in the early 1990s and has had a passion for painting from a young age. She is featured by the David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation on their website as a partner artist and exhibited as a shortlisted candidate in 2016 and 2017 in their “Wildlife Artist of the Year Exhibition” at the Mall Galleries. Her paintings are made as a direct response to a landscape or seascape and are deep-rooted in the North Cornish coastline and the dramatic landscape of Dartmoor. Floyd says, “My paintings are a direct response to a landscape or seascape, a situation, a moment captured, connecting abstract elements with expressive mark-making. Works on paper and board are made outside and nature and the elements make their mark, influencing the finished piece.” Making observational sketches outside is at the heart of her work and also is experimenting with a variety of media and tools at every stage of the process.