One afternoon at her mother's home in São Paulo, Brazil, Maria came upon an old window glass. The urge to paint came unexpectedly as a spontaneous act of self healing after a year of intense discoveries. That was how it began, what later was going to be discovered as one of her truest voices.

    Graduated in Social Comunications, and working as a on screen producer within the field of cinema, Maria expressed herself through a diversity of means such as photography, accting singing, performance arts and contemporary dance, the last one comming all the way from childhood.

    After an awakening experience at her early 20's, she was lead to a diferent path, diving upon the discovery of the Vaisnava culture, and later the Advaita Vedanta tradition.

    Drawn to the practice of meditation, she began her own ongoing journey of exploration, understanding and integrating her new experience of self.

    In the midst of her healing process, that afternoon in São Paulo took place, and painting became a joyfull form of exploration of her own  experience in a meditative and spontaneous way.

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