Contemporary painter

Where quiet landscapes hold their breath.

Maria Ivan paints the emotional weather of a place: the hush before snowfall, a line of trees half-remembered, light gathering at the edge of the day.

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Abstract winter landscape in cloud white, slate blue, and charcoal

Wintering2026

Selected works
2025–26

Landscape is the starting point.
Feeling is where the work arrives.

Selected work

Recent paintings

A growing archive of atmosphere, gesture, and remembered place.

Quiet Field

2025 · Oil on canvas

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I return to the landscape not to record it, but to find the part that stayed with me.

Maria Ivan · Artist statement

The artist

A practice of looking slowly

Maria Ivan is a contemporary painter whose work begins with landscape and moves toward memory. Through layered marks, softened horizons, and an instinctive sense of atmosphere, she explores the moment a familiar place becomes something felt rather than simply seen.\n\nHer paintings value the eviden…

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Wintering

2026 · Oil on canvas

$1,850

Blue abstract landscape with a pale moon and dark gestural horizon

Blue Hour

2026 · Oil and cold wax on panel

$980

Layered abstract painting in warm stone, ice blue, and umber

After the Thaw

2026 · Oil on linen

$1,450