ARTCOVIA

I am a Mexican artist living in Querétaro, raised in a close-knit family with strong values ​​and a heart that always sought to express itself. Since I was a child, I felt a deep fascination with shapes, colors, and human emotions, something that later became the driving force behind my art.

I studied Fashion Design at the Universidad del Valle de México and in 2010 began my creative journey with the launch of my clothing brand Mariacovia Dama y Caballero. In 2013, I moved to Australia, where I took a marketing course. It was there, far from home and deeply connected to myself, that my need to paint was born: faces charged with emotion, transformed by my moods, full of shapes and colors that didn't respond to rules, but rather to my inner self.

For three years, I explored this new way of creating: I fused faces with abstract elements, with geometries, with textures; I found in mixed media a free and symbolic way to express what I felt. In 2017, I returned to Mexico to start my family. I fully dedicated myself to motherhood, but art never left my side. In 2021, inspired by my children, I launched a new children's brand: Babylendig by Po, featuring a cartoon bunny I created, representing love, sweetness, and play.

That same year, I deepened my artistic journey with a Diploma in Art Therapy, where I learned to listen to my body, my emotions, and my senses. I learned to touch, smell, feel, release... and transform all of that into my work. My painting began to focus on nature, the human body, the symbolism of the face, and a more expressionist and emotional vision.

In 2022, I studied with two teachers who influenced my process: Marcela Herbert, who taught me the power of color, the importance of white, and the freedom to let go on the canvas; and Desire Romero, who led me to explore textures and visual expansion, giving more body and life to my work.

That same year, I returned to Australia, and Artcovia was born, a project that emerged from commissioned abstract portraits and a whirlwind of personal emotions. It was a deeply intense period, like an emotional roller coaster, that transformed into art.

At the beginning of 2024, I launched "Echoes of the Ocean," a collection I worked on for a year, which was my first step toward sharing my inner world with the public. I entered this series into two competitions in Australia: AMCS – Age Against Ageism and Artisan Collective Port Stephens.

At the end of 2024, I returned to Mexico, took a textures workshop with Gabriela Villarreal, and in January 2025, I began my new abstract art collection, a project in which I continue to explore the intangible: energy, the body, emotion, memory.

Today, my work remains an intimate and honest reflection of who I am and everything I've experienced. I paint from the heart. I paint to connect. I paint to heal.