Roberta March MFA ’21

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Roberta March was born and raised in Brazil. Her first degree is in business administration and she received an MA in marketing, followed by a career in banking. She attended the Hampstead School of Art in London, England, receiving a foundation diploma in Fine Arts. In 2015, she relocated to Houston, Texas where she studied at The Glassell Studio School of Art. Afterwards, she moved to Portland, Maine and began her MFA program at Maine College of Art & Design , where she graduated in May 2021 and worked for two years as a Painting Studio Technician until 2023. Now she divides her time between family and her studio practice. Her art is within the field of abstraction. She finds inspiration from the five elements of nature: earth, air, fire, water and space. In response to these elements of nature, she reflects on how we need to mold ourselves to keep adapting to the new circumstances life brings to us.Through the use of color, shape and patterning, and by using different materials, she strives to express energy and gestural quality in her paintings, and to investigate the notion of transforming subjective ideas into objects of art. It is a constant search for interplay with the space to create physical and virtual movements that are capable of awakening the senses.