Maria Chevska, born 1948, is a painter, draughtsman, printmaker and teacher based in London. She attended Byam Shaw School of Art and later became head of painting at Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford.

Solo exhibitions of her work include Air Gallery in 1982 and BWA Gallery in Wroclaw, Poland. In 2002 she participated in a touring exhibition of paintings and a new installation entitled Vera’s Room which took place in France at Maison de la Culture d’Amiens.

Other group exhibitions have included Art and Sea, at John Hansard Gallery and ICA; Crossover (1991) at Anderson O’Day Gallery and White Out (1995) at the Curwen Gallery.

Chevska was awarded by the Arts Council in 1977, Greater London Arts Association in 179-84, Gulbenkian Foundation Printmakers in 1982 and British School at Rome in 1994.

Many public and corporate collections include her work including Arts Council, Bolton City and Oldham Art Galleries.

Reference Bibliography:
Buckman D., 2006, Artists in Britain since 1945, Vol 1, Art Dictionaries Ltd, Bristol

Ruskin School

http://www.mariachevska.com/about.htm

Glossary

  • Drawing

    The depiction of shapes and forms on a flat surface chiefly by means of lines although colour and shading may also be included. Materials most commonly used are pencil, ink, crayon, charcoal, chalk and pastel, although other materials, including paint, can be used in combination.

  • Installation

    An artwork comprised of many and various elements of miscellaneous materials (see mixed media), light and sound, which is conceived for and occupies an entire space, gallery or site. The viewer can often enter or walk around the installation. Installations may only exist as long as they are installed, but can be re-created in different sites. Installation art emerged in the 1960s out of Environmental Art (works of art which are three-dimensional environments), but it was not until the 1970s that the term came into common use and not until the late 1980s that artists started to specialise in this kind of work, creating a genre of ‘Installation Art’. The term can also be applied to the arrangement of selected art works in an exhibition.

  • Painting

    Work of art made with paint on a surface. Often the surface, also called a support, is a tightly stretched piece of canvas, paper or a wooden panel. Painting involves a wide range of techniques and materials, along with the artist's intellectual concerns effecting the content of a work.