Maria Lee-Warren Art

29/12/2025

Three new works up in the open Jan 4th ☺️ available through the gallery and online here: https://marialeewarren.co.uk/originals

22/12/2025

All That Water Remembers
Oil on cradled wood panel, 50 × 50 cm

Lilies slowly come into view through cool layers of blue, hovering just above the darker water beneath. I was thinking about memory here as something quiet and imprecise, more like a feeling than a story.

The paint is built up in soft layers so the surface stays calm, with depth that reveals itself gradually rather than all at once.

Part of the Milkwater series.
Float framed in white oak.
Available via my website https://marialeewarren.co.uk/originals/p/all-that-water-remembers-500-x-500-mm or through North Street Gallery from 27th Dec.

13/12/2025

Morning Veil
300 × 300 mm
Oil on cradled wood panel

Morning Veil is part of Milkwater, a series that marks a quieter shift in my painting.

I’ve become less interested in defining things clearly, and more drawn to atmosphere, restraint and what sits just beneath the surface. Cool light, water and lilies surface slowly through veils of paint, softening and dissolving rather than fixing themselves in place.

Although the work references early light, it’s painted in the evening, when the day has settled and everything feels muted and reflective. That sense of suspension, between clarity and blur, runs through the series.

More from Milkwater coming soon…

10/04/2025

📣Artist Applications open on Monday 14 April 🎉 So excited to be launching applications very soon and to be welcoming you lovely local creatives to join us this September.⁠
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The 2025 Trail will be on 20 & 21 September, running from 11am - 5pm each day. There will soon be a list of community venues up on the website that are available to host artists if you don't live in BS3 or are unable to open up your home. ⁠
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Check back on the website from Monday for more details and to get filling out that application form!⁠
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🖌️Maria Lee-Warren Art

30/09/2024

A painting completed at the weekend. I’ve been studying and exploring water, and feeling inspired by Sylvia Plath. The darkness and depth, the glinting light on the surface, the current and movement.

‘A little light is filtering from the water flowers.
Their leaves do not wish us to hurry:
They are round and flat and full of dark advice.

Cold worlds shake from the oar.
The spirit of blackness is in us, it is in the fishes.
A snag is lifting a valedictory, pale hand;

Stars open among the lilies.
Are you not blinded by such expressionless sirens?
This is the silence of astounded souls.’

From ‘Crossing the Water’ Sylvia Plath.

06/09/2024

So happy to have contributed the cover artwork for this amazing release 😍

I'm happy to announce that my new EP 'Tempest' is out today!
Download: https://phaeleh.bandcamp.com/album/tempest
Stream: https://ingrv.es/tempest-a3s-1

06/09/2024

A double day of celebration 🎉 all set up for the BS5 Art Trail and my partner Matt’s stunning new EP ‘Tempest’ came out today too 🥰 He helped me set up and hang the paintings this morning despite it being a busy launch day for him 🥹 I’ll be at the Old School House this Saturday 7th September, 11-5pm with about 10 other makers (clothing,ceramics,paintings) so pop on down if you’re in Bristol! ✨

24/08/2024

I’ll be exhibiting at The Old Schoolhouse as part of the BS5 Arts Trail in Bristol on Saturday 7th September! I’m so excited for the event and to see so much inspiring art made by others. Pop by and say hi to the wonderful creatives 🥰

11/08/2024

Started this a few weeks ago and finished this morning. Delphiniums, peonies, blue alpines. Weirdly I spent longest on the background of this one, there’s about 6 layers of colour and texture.

05/08/2024

Still life from this weekend, oil alla prima. Roses, snapdragons, salvia and delilahs 🥰

21/07/2024

A joyful floral for a beautiful sunny Sunday!

06/07/2024

‘Living Liberty’ is the next in my ‘Beneath the Bloom’ series, with the subject of peonies, salvia and roses (the short bloom of peonies being one of my favourites), of which I’ve just listed on my shop. I painted this in an alla prima method (wet on wet) from life in oil paints on beautiful wood panel, with oak coloured stained edges. This one needs a little longer to dry, and will be ready to post at the end of July.

Oil on cradled wood panel, A5 148 x 210 millimetres/5.8 x 8.3 inches

https://marialeewarren.co.uk/shop/p/living-liberty