Maria Luisa Hernandez

Early life and education

Hernandez was born in Chile, and was raised in Santiago. She graduated from the University of Chile with a Masters in Fine Arts, Honours. Hernandez received a scholarship to exhibit her “Living in the Light” collection in Stolkhom in 1997, and went on to show her work in New York. Pearce, Antonia. Hernandez traveled throughout France, Spain and Italy, eventually settling in London to pursue art. In London, she studied at the Prince’s Drawing school.

Career

Hernandez’s work has been featured in a number of solo and group exhibitions since her first exhibition in 1997. (“Maria Luisa Hernandez,” Artists, Cadogan Contemporary. Retrieved 11-03-2015.) Her exhibitions have been held in London, Dublin, Stockholm, Santiago, New York and Barcelona.

Hernandez won a grant from the Chilean Foreign Office in 1997. In 2009, she was featured in “The Courvoisier’s Future 500 Rising Stars,” sponsored by The Observer.

Hernandez’s work is collected all over the world. Her work is found throughout Barcelona, London, New York, and Washington. Celebrities and notable collectors have collected her work. A 2009 article from Embassy revealed Hernandez's painting that was hung in the Chilean embassy. She continues to exhibit today at Cadogan Contemporary in London.

Style

Hernandez’s work has been likened to “that of a latter day Renaissance master.”

Drawing on her father’s interest in painting the Chilean coastline, Hernandez’s work features the rush of the sea. She now lives and paints by the Thames in London.

Art critic Pedro Laowtiz has praised Hernandez’s work as “an atmospheric play of colour and light… her hallmark is insinuation and evocation rather than description.”