Maria Falbo was born in New Mexico and grew up in West Virginia. Her education and work life have been spent in the area of physics with the exception of a year in the Master of Architecture program at UNC-Charlotte. She now divides her time between teaching physics, painting and many other interests. The subject matter of her work is varied, but highly influenced by nature (human and other).  She works mainly in acrylics and attempts to represent qualities of things and not the things themselves through composition, layering, symbol and color. After creating study sketches from life she combines elements of the sketches with reference photographs until achieving a satisfying composition. Basic color palettes are dictated by the subject matter but evolve with slight color changes on the canvas until a painting seems finished. Maria is an active volunteer in the Fine Arts League of Cary and her work can be seen hanging in many places around the triangle.

Additional Sites:

http://www.bluezootstudio.com/

Maria's Lulu Store Prints of my original artwork on demand. Try it out and let me know how it goes.

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