Maya Burman

Artist Maya Burman, the recipient of several awards says that taking up painting is akin to adopting a religion.

Describing her technique as 'poetic handwriting', Maya prefers to work in watercolours, delineating landscapes, human forms inspired by Indian miniature painting, wood surfaces, graphic designs in an unfettered pastiche of shape and shade.
Black is a critical colour in her work, with bright colours thrown in, in eclectic contrast. In the last five years since her first group show, where she was singled out for the Award for Young Painters – Salon de Colombes (1997), Maya has exhibited extensively and won many awards, including the Award of the Fine Art Association of Sannois (1998), the Award of the Salon d'Automne Paris (2000), and the Award of Watercolours Painting Section Salon de Colombes (2001).
Her art, allegorical and lyrical as it is, reflects her unique cross-cultural heritage in exquisite detail, and is vibrant with positive energy. Her father's figurative work, drawn from Indian mythology, has been a huge influence.