River's Edge: C&C at Ballroom Arts, Aldeburgh, Suffolk

Maria Pavledis is a Norwich based artist and printmaker whose powerful images take inspiration from the natural world of animal life around us, such as insects and birds, and connect these with mythology and the symbolism in stories and folklore.  

Her smoke drawings are created using the smoke from burning candles, creating rhythmic and hypnotic images. To make the smoke drawings, Maria works from underneath the drawing, lying down and then ‘works into’ the smoke image with a variety of tools. Maria also makes limited edition etchings conveying the fragility and resilience of the natural world and its relationship to humans.

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