Maria Andrade Andrade
The Silence of Color. The Voice of Light.

Maria Andrade Andrade is a Russian–Ecuadorian artist based in Brussels, working across painting, photography, and mixed media.

Her practice explores the symbolic and spiritual dimensions of nature, where the tree emerges as a central motif — not as landscape,
but as presence, a figure, almost a face. Rooted in a deeply intuitive process, her work unfolds as a dialogue between inner and outer worlds,
here memory, time, and transformation converge.

Influenced by Russian iconography, pre-Columbian art, and the fresco traditions of Siena and Florence,
Andrade develops a highly decorative and symbolic visual language.
Her philosophical palette is centered on blue and gold: blue as a space of depth and contemplation, gold as a sign of the sacred,
bridging the material and the spiritual.

Working with layered materials — including paint, burlap, paper, and photographic elements —
she constructs surfaces that function as contemporary icons, where image and matter carry traces of time.
Her compositions often develop in series, forming constellations of related works that echo one another.

Her work can be understood as a search for stillness and intensity — an attempt to reveal the underlying energy of life and the silent presence within it.
Through her paintings, Andrade invites the viewer into a contemplative state, where seeing becomes a form of sensing.

Maria Andrade Andrade has been living and working in Brussels since 2011.
She is a member of The International Art Fund and has participated in numerous exhibitions internationally.
They have included The 7th Annual Art International Exhibition at BoxHeart Expressions Gallery in Pittsburgh,
the Manhattan Arts Gallery in New York, the Agora Gallery in the Council of Europe in Strasbourg.
Her paintings are also in private collections worldwide including Europe, USA, Latin America and Asia.
Furthermore she manufactures, designs and promotes her own line of silk scarves www.loorfashion.com
Her other projects have included illustrations and book cover designs for a number of publications including The Dragon of Prali (2010) and
The Wizard of Prali (2011) by American writer Davidson L. Haworth.
And with her sister, Diana Andrade Andrade, she is also designing fashion accessories incorporating her unique artistic style.