1. My work
MARIA ESPERANZA DIAZ
(1966- )
Plastic artist
Specialty: Painting
Art is beauty!
The world of art, filled with dreams of nuances, is a source of magic, goals, hopes, colors,
illusions; Maria E, as her friends affectionately call her, is the artist name she uses to sign her
printings.
Those dreams took her through the crossings of life, forging her art little by little, with much
sacrifice and work as is the case for most of the artists who have to carve out their own destiny.
The History of this artist was marked by an ideal
world; since her teenage yeamy workrs, her
passion for the beautiful forms of life attracted
her; literature was the opening door to the world
of magic; it set her onto the path she desired:
painting. Eldest of 6 brothers, in a family of
limited economical recourses, she always resisted
from falling into the doom of utter poverty; she
decided that studies were her only way to fight it
and survive it.
She was born in Cali - Valle, Colombia, in 1966.
It is not until the age 14 that she realized life had
beautiful dimensions to it, which had to be immortalized through their plastic representation;
even though she felt that way, never had she any idea that she would become the painter she
wanted to be. She only started her art classes at the age of 28 in the workshops of the Institute
Popular de culture. Her first art teacher is the person who discovered in her the gift of painting
and encouraged her to study the art in a formal way. This was the boost she needed to undertake
in arts career and pursue until the end.

2. After her studies in Cali (Colombia), She moved to Panama City to follow through with her
higher studies in the INSTITUTO SUPERIOR DE BELLAS ARTES ROBERTO LEWIS, a
school of plastic arts where she had the opportunity to surround herself with the Panamanian
artists among whom she received the best instruction, worked tirelessly, looking for ways to do a
work that would be important for her and for the art work viewers. Her work and her quest led to
the experiment with various techniques and materials, even recycled objects, all object being
important for the experimentation and final development.
Titulo: Pasajerosen
transito
Dimensiones:3 yardas y
medias
Técnica: Acrílico/tela

3. For Maria E the research of the theme that is going to take form is important; that’s why reading
is an important part of her steps towards achievement. In books, she finds the answers to the
meaning of symbolism, mysticism, eroticism, sensuality, love, which represent an emotional
need to create. The legends that exist in different civilizations also arouse her curiosity; that is
how she developed a keen interest in the legend of indigenous Australians, a theme that will
grow to be paramount in her plastic evolution; the WANDJINAS «passengers in transit »
paintings are inspired by a legend of rock art in Australia. According to the Aboriginal people,
they didn’t paint such figures but rather special beings that existed in ancient times. These beings
with special features brought prosperity to the region where they lived, with white faces and no
mouth, large figures of six meters, their heads in a semicircular, horseshoe shape with thin lines
that seem to radiate towards the outer circle.
ntros
:3 yardas y
ico/tela

4. In her paintings that translate energy, she uses the technique of action painting combined with
shape in order to achieve freedom and emotion, to free energy and to transmit it to the viewer.
Forms are flat and oblong and points and lines are used to adorn the spheres.
It was not until 2011 that she found a theme and a style she was satisfied with and with which
she would identify. That triggered the creation of canvas, drawings, sketches and pre-sketches of
wandjinas in the hundreds, inspired by 90% of work and 10% of successes and events of daily
life and art itself that could be seen as a movement or a pictorial school. it fits perfectly abstract
expressionism, with wild, shimmering, vibrant and flaming colors, used fearlessly and giving
birth to deformed, oblong exaggerated characters, as are, in a more specific way, spheres in
different dimensions.
Maria E is a pacifist, an artist, who doesn’t find any reason to feed hatred and violence among
human beings and who rejects outright any kind of war that is brewing in the whole world, and
she uses her painting as a refuge in face of adversity.
Llegada
siones:63”x60”
a: Acrílicosobre