Maria Bossert grew up in Northern Kentucky and is a lifelong artist. She teaches drawing and painting at The Baker-Hunt Art and Cultural Center in Covington, KY, and has worked with ArtWorks to co-supervise a large mural project with youth apprentices in the Walnut Hills neighborhood of Cincinnati, OH.
In Maria’s own art practice, she primarily works with colored pencils to create vibrant depictions of the natural world: landscapes, plants, animals, and occasionally human subjects. For many years in her artistic process, Maria was drawn towards realism and the challenge of exactly recreating a scene from life or from a photo as a drawing. These days, she is more inspired by the entangled complexity of nature and seeks to depict natural scenes as they are while bending the rules of real-life colors with an attention towards light and shadow, often bordering on abstraction. Maria has also been inspired by traveling and particularly enjoys drawing landscapes while spending time outdoors.
Outside of art, Maria’s professional background is in nonprofit program coordination and qualitative research. Notably, Maria was awarded a Fulbright Research Grant to conduct ethnographic research in Nepal from July 2023 to May 2024, where she engaged in environmental anthropology and cultural museum studies.
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I am available for commissions or art inquiries, and I sell prints of all the artwork on this website. If you’ve read this page, I sincerely thank you, and I hope you enjoy my art!
You can best reach me via email at mbossert27@gmail.com
- Maria