Maria Eames creates her over size mixed media images by combining her photography, paintings, and collages.  Being vague and non-objective calls on the observers imagination, as they observe, they have a creative-escape within themselves.  Sometimes there is a hint to get you started but the rest is up to viewer. 

Maria studied art and design at Alaska University and Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. Her watercolors and mixed media have been shown in juried art shows from Alaska to California and Ohio, including the All Alaska Juried exhibition at the Anchorage Museum of Art and the National Watercolor Society Invitational Exhibition in Brea, California. Her work is also part of several private collections.

Her Greatest influences have been (in order of discovery) ….Andrew Wyeth’s compositions of natural simplicity, the light effects and depth of Maxfield Parrish landscapes, the bizarre mix of elements by Dali, Helen Frankenthaler for her out of the box experimentation, Klimt’s decorative elements, Andy Warhol  and Robert Rauschenberg for the use of collage and silk-screens, Dale Chihuly for his translucent vibrant colors, shape and scale.

Bio

Maria Eames has been a commercial and fine artist for over 25 years. She has always had the opportunity to be on the cutting edge of using traditional mediums as well as sophisticated digital technology.

Her father, Harry Eames, influenced her at a young age by watching him paint and getting to use the colors from his left over pallates. She also was influenced by her next door neighbor that was a commercial artist and painter. His glass walled studio faced her bedroom window from where she could watch him paint oversize canvases late into the night.

After many learning experiences in Los Angeles it was time to move back to her roots in Ohio where she became a paintbox animator and fx artist for television in Cleveland. Her unique mixtures of moving video, animated graphics, music and sound effects created dynamic eye catching images that made her popular with producers looking for edgy graphics for their projects.

Now traveling on assignments, she devotes herself to full-time to commercial design and mixed media art.