My goal is to invite my audience to share an intimate moment with me in the beauty of nature.

Painting of a beach landscape with sand dunes, grass, and ocean waves under a blue sky with clouds.

A woman with long gray hair smiling, wearing hoop earrings and bracelets, resting her chin on her hand.

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

A person smiling while painting a wall with geometric patterns using blue painter’s tape. They are holding a paintbrush and wearing a casual white sweater and blue jeans.

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.

Painting of an adult holding a child, both facing away; the child has blonde hair and touches the adult's shoulder, depicted in impressionistic style with vibrant colors.

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.

Painting of a beach with sand dunes, grass, turquoise ocean, and cloudy sky.