MARÍA VERÓNICA ARÍS ZLATAR
STATEMENT
Painting the Inwards Journey
My art has always sought the invisible. Through oil, charcoal, graphite, or watercolor, I choose a single material each time, allowing the gesture to embody a specific emotional vibration—an inner resonance suspended in time.
Today, my practice has turned inward. I now paint my own spiritual and existential transitions: the moments where life challenges me to transform. Each portrait becomes a passage—an act of writing with color and silence, a way of metabolizing experience until it turns into form.
I do not seek resemblance; I paint the threshold. A figure emerges when the inner voice pushes toward visibility—when vulnerability begins to shine. These images carry symbolic resonances: archetypes, ancestral echoes, emotional topographies, and cyclical time.
I create for those who look at art not to observe but to inhabit. Viewers are invited into a quiet space where presence replaces narrative, and where they can recognize their own metamorphoses reflected back to them.
My portraits are companions along the journey of becoming—offerings of life finding shape, again and again, through the human face.
MEDIUMS
One per artwork
Charcoal, Graphite pencils, Sanguine, Dry pastels, Watercolor, Acrylic painting, and Oil painting.
