About Maysa Tavares
I'm 30 years old and was born in Minaçu, a small town in the interior of Goiás, Brazil — a simple place surrounded by nature, colors, and memories that profoundly shaped my artistic sensibility.
Art has always been part of my life. As a child, I spent hours drawing and painting. At school, art classes were my favorite. I entered drawing contests and had the joy of winning some of them. Back then, I already understood, even without being able to explain, that creating was something essential to me.
Over time, life took me down other paths. I took a break from painting and became a tattoo artist. Tattooing taught me precision, technique, discipline, and respect for the line. But something inside me still wanted to explore other forms of expression.
That's when I returned to painting — first on canvas, then with watercolors. Gradually, I fell deeply in love with the world of colors, water mixing with pigment, and the freedom that paper offers. I also began exploring sculptures in cold porcelain and cold clay, expanding my ways of creating.
Today I'm fully dedicated to mixed media art, combining watercolor with acrylic paint and colored pencil details. This blend allows me to merge delicacy and intensity, lightness and depth.
Painting has also become a space for healing in my life. I went through moments of anxiety, and it was through art that I found balance. Painting brings me presence, inner silence, and tranquility. It's an almost meditative process — a refuge.
My main inspiration comes from animals, faces, and elements of nature. There's something deeply human in the expression of a gaze, the texture of fur, the silent strength of a landscape. I also explore the abstract and geometric, creating compositions that dialogue between emotion and structure.
Today I live in California, in Santa Clara, where I continue developing my artistic language and expanding my creative horizons.
What I wish to convey through my work is peace, calm, and warmth. I want anyone looking at one of my paintings to feel a pause in time. A breath. A sense of tranquility and connection.
My art is about sensitivity, healing, and beauty in the small things.
