My goal is to invite my audience to share an intimate moment with me in the beauty of nature.
With heavy body acrylics and watercolors, I attempt to capture the essence of that beauty and reflect it back. My style is impressionistic-realism, and I work with both brush and knife on canvas, paper, boards and even wood.
I paint primarily florals, birds and butterflies, and attempt to capture the small moments in people’s everyday lives. Living on one of Georgia’s barrier islands, landscapes of the ocean and marshes, are common subjects of my paintings. My goal is to celebrate the beauty of nature and life's small moments. I want to evoke an emotional connection with those who view my paintings.
My Story
My name is Maria de Rojas-Scott. I was born in Matanzas, Cuba over 65 years ago. I immigrated to the United States at the age of nine and grew up in Macon, GA. Art has always played an important part in my life. I am a self-taught artist. I learned the basics of painting in my high school art classes. Then the rest, I learned through YouTube.
In the 1980’s and 90’s, I painted furniture, walls, and countertops. Many years later, simply by chance, I ran across a YouTube video offering a class on painting florals in a journal. The simple lesson by Suzanne Allard changed my life. I began to paint again. Once again, I ran across another YouTube Video, this time by Dave Jansen, in which he challenged everyone to paint 30 roses in 30 days. I became obsessed and have not stopped painting.
For the last three years I have woken up at 4:30 every morning, so I can have enough time to paint before I leave for school. I paint every day. I paint the joy that I feel when I look at nature and see the ocean, the clouds, a flower, or bird. Inspired by the world around me, and the natural beauty of the low country of Georgia, I paint the beauty of nature and the beauty in our simple everyday lives. Dave Jansen continues to influence my art which I express in a loose impressionistic style reaching towards realism.
