Maria Evestus ^{Emerging artist}

Artist's country of origin: Estonia

Maria Evestus was born in 1986 in Kuressaare, Estonia. In 2008 she graduated from Kuressaare Vocational School as a creative designer, in 2014 she got her bachelor's diploma from Tartu Art College's painting department (minoring in design) and as of 2022 she holds a master's degree in cultural management from the University of Tartu.

Maria started her career as a painter in 2010. To this date she has shown her work more than twenty solo shows in Estonia and over forty joint shows in Estonia and Finland.

Her work is inspired by fairy-tales, sacral art, preraphaelites, mysticism, pop-surrealism, myths and psychedelia. The main keywords here are opposites, ancient, pop, symmetry, deviation, decorative, narrative, symbolism.

Marira Evestus' uniquely layered works are part of many private collections in Estonia, Germany, Finland and the UK.