01/04/2025
ENG: On April 11th in 1970 the Apollo 13 craft was launched from Kennedy Space Center. In 2025, on this same date, we are proudly launching the first Solo Show of Maria Horvathova in Latvia - ‘Writing to the land’.
Maria Horvathova is a landscape oil painter based in Northern Ireland. Born in Slovakia in 1996, Maria moved to Northern Ireland with her family in 2010. Completing both her bachelor’s degree in Fine Art Painting (Honours) in 2019, and a Masters degree in Fine Art in 2023 at Belfast School of Art, Ulster University.
Her practice explores reminders of landscape, in a romanticised and cherished approach. Primarily creating oil paintings, that act as an open window into the past and remind the viewer of nostalgic feelings by capturing the intimate moments of the wilderness. Having spent her childhood escaping into nature - as it provided the artist with a feeling of freedom - an experimental approach that facilitates losing oneself in the painting process is practiced. Using oil paint like watercolour, fluid and fast on wooden board surfaces, to re-create chemical reactions - by applying different mediums and thinners with oil paint to form bubble “error” effects, similar to those found on polaroid photographs, created during a chemical image development process. Previously, the artists practice also examined references to deep space perspective and astronomical explorations.
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