Maria Bagioli

My practice explores the tension between control and surrender through water-based media. Working primarily with highly diluted acrylic and watercolor, I push fluidity to its limits, allowing pigment to behave according to gravity, movement, and absorption rather than rigid composition.

Watercolor’s immediacy is central to my process. It demands presence and decisiveness; each gesture is irreversible. The transparency of the medium creates layered atmospheres where color interacts organically, forming subtle transitions and unexpected edges. This instantaneity becomes a dialogue between intention and accident.

In parallel, I use acrylic in its maximum dilution, transforming it into pools of pigment that move freely across the canvas. By tilting, rotating, and shifting the fabric, I guide the flow without fully controlling it. The surface becomes a site of movement, where gravity draws forms that resemble aerial landscapes, tides, or shifting terrains. What emerges is not imposed imagery, but revealed structure.

My work is rooted in process. Color fields expand, merge, evaporate. The canvas records time: the moment of contact, the pause, the absorption. Through this method, I seek to create spaces that feel both expansive and intimate — suspended between abstraction and landscape.

Water, fluidity, and motion are not only technical elements but conceptual foundations. They speak of impermanence, transformation, and the beauty of forms that cannot be entirely predicted.

Education

2001

Bachelor’s Degree in Visual Arts – Andrés Bello University, Chile

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2017
Abstract Painting Workshop (6 months), taught by artist Pilar Gleboff – Buenos Aires, Argentina Alcohol Ink Course

(6 months), taught by artist Magdalena Olavarría – Chile

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2021 – 2023

Grid Drawing Courses