Visitors are welcome by appointment to see works in progress or discuss commissions.
Maura also paints live at events, weddings, and corporate gatherings, where the guests or participants become part of the creative process. For information about commissions, exhibitions, or studio visits, please contact the artist by email. here.
Maura Tavares is active at her studio Ateljé Avant, Rörläggarvägen 26, Stockholm
Photo: Hjalmar Bergom Larsson
Photo: Christian Habetzeder
My artistic background
I have always painted and early on in life received a broad training in various artistic fields such as sculpture, book binding, woodwork, textile techniques and forging of various metals.
Since my training at The Florence Academy of Art in Italy I have painted off and on, using many different techniques. I have, however, not had painting as part of my profession until 2016, when I had reached a point where I wanted to take my realistic painting further. I have gradually established myself as a painter focusing on traditional drawing and oil painting.
My passion lies in painting people - interpreting the world around me through my paintings. Most of my compositions involve people, though I also very much enjoy landscapes and still lives.
Rendering people working with what they love, or surrounded by object that have meaning in their lives, is something that inspires me a lot. It is timeless, but it also mirrors the time we are living in right now. I work a lot with portrait commissions of various kinds, and a new technique that I have developed recently is live painting sessions where I depict people at events or at their workplaces or in their homes.
Along side with my painting I teach literature, writing and theatre at Kristofferskolan in Stockholm.
Curriculum Vitae
Exhibitions:
July 2025 – Il lago e il cielo, solo exhibition, Villa Bernocchi, Italy
July 2025 – Summer Salon, Galleri Lorentzon
March 2024 – (Skal; klyfta; kärna), Ekebyhov Castle Gallery
Oct 2023 – Reflections II, Galleri Bollhustäppan
Sep 2023 – Reflections I, Ateljé Avant
June–Sep 2023 – Healing Art, Kungsholmsdoktorn
June–Sep 2023 – Solo exhibition at Esplanaden
May 2023 – Early Summer Salon, Ateljé Avant
March 2023 – Stockholm Art Salon
Nov 2022 – Trä Fyra, Galleri Konsthallen
Sep 2022 – Four Shades of Realism, Galleri Svea
Aug 2022 – Cloud Formations, Capgemini Art Association
March 2022 – Tree Exhibition, Hjorthagen Cultural Center
Nov–Dec 2021 – Jag längtar skogarna, Skarpnäck Cultural Center
Sep–Nov 2021 – Ljungberg Museum
May–Aug 2021 – Portrait Now!, Frederiksborg Castle
Nov 2021 – Four Shades of Realism, Studio ABC
Sep–Oct 2021 – Jag längtar skogarna, Ytterjärna Cultural Center
Oct 2021 – Affordable Art Fair Stockholm
Nov–Dec 2020 – “Forest Yearning”, Radiohusen, Hässelby
Dec 2019 – Hotel Reimersholme
Oct 2019 – Affordable Art Fair Stockholm
June 2019 – Carousel
May–Sep 2018 – Carousel
March 2017 – Munkbron 5, Stockholm
Education
Master of Arts, Stockholm University, 1998
Florence Academy of Art, 1999–2000
Waldorf Teacher Training, Milan, 2001
Teaching Degree, Stockholm University, 2011
2015–2019:
Workshops and artistic studies with Paula Rubino, Sara Academy, and Odd Nerdrum