Maria Tribe was born in Brighton and has been painting professionally since 1994. Her paintings are visual diaries based on encounters ranging from a moment in time to journeys around the world. Inspiration is derived from architecture, landscape, colour, music and language and also from travels to Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, India, Australia, Egypt, Turkey and Barcelona. Growing up by the sea developed a passion for water, scuba diving and the luminous colours of underwater seascapes. The paintings draw on history, monuments, the way events have been marked through time and also everyday life. There is a fascination with the process of memory and what remains: a taste, a person, a colour, an object, a sensation. The work is a fusion of these triggers and a meditation on an experience or journey. The process is very instinctive and the working process is very much about creating unconsciously, having a “conversation” with a piece, allowing things to emerge until a harmony is reached.
Maria has completed many public and private commissions including six large paintings for Worthing and Southlands hospitals in Sussex in 2005. *CV and artists statement*

After 10 years working in the beachfront arches 2005 saw the founding of Studio 106 in Hove's Poets Corner and the conversion of a 300m2 old factory space into a fantastic new studio/ gallery housing 20 artists: Studio 106, 1st Floor, 106 Coleridge St, Hove, Sussex BN3 5AA. UK tel: 07718 497418*site being updated 28/4/09*