Maria William

Maria William is a 29 year old artist/illustrator from New York City. Her work encompasses a wide variety of styles and genres, from fantasy to pinup to traditional portraiture, utilizing a number of mediums - graphite, oil, gouache, colored pencil, watercolor, and the digital media.

"My art hovers somewhere on the brink between realism, surrealism and eroticism, with heavy influences from a number of modern fantasy artists, mythology, Art Nouveau and Pre-Raphaelites. I love realism, yet I don't strive to do it exclusively; I love to mix styles and moods. I’m fascinated by the weird, the beautiful and the fantastic, and try to bring all that out in my art. I believe that art depicting and conveying nothing more than beauty is just as valuable as art with some higher meaning or message behind it. Sometimes, art exists simply for the sake of art. Being outrageous or revolutionary is not what makes and artist. Sometimes an artist has a message, but sometimes he or she simply has a need to create."