My artistic practice is a combination of painting, drawing, sculpting, collage, and elementary engraving techniques such as monoprint and woodcut. Always looking for beauty in the unconventional and with a keen interest in recycling waste, don´t be surprised to find me digging through rubbish on construction sites or "treasure hunting" at the beach for objects and materials that catch my eye and meet some of my ideas.
I draw most of my inspiration from everyday life, people and nature ; but my earlier experiences in life, childhood memories, loss, and a consequent "joie de vivre" that coexists with a certain melancholy also tend to appear in many of my abstract paintings.
Making the most of the colour and texture of the materials, in this game of “hide and seek” that characterises my practice, the artworks often provoke in those who see them a certain sense of calm, peace and light; even though the under layers of most is the chaos of the emotional storms natural to human experience.
Mariana Horgan (b. 1985) was born in Lisbon, where she lives and works. She graduated in Marketing Management and later began a Master's programme in Territorial Management, which she abandoned. She attended the Painting course and the Relief Printing Techniques course, both at the Art Academy in London, as well as the Painting course at Ar.Co - Centro de Arte e Comunicação Visual, in Lisbon. Her work deals with the tensions and surprises of everyday life, transforming them through artistic practice into images that evoke a sense of tranquillity.
Horgan’s work was presented at Ar.Co in 2020 and 2021, at the Museu da Electricidade and at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto, also in 2021.