New and Abstract

September 2023

Five questions to Marisabel Gonzalez

Maria Isabel Gonzalez (aka Marisabel) was born in 1973 in Caracas, Venezuela. She works from her studio located in the industrial area of the Northern Beaches of Sydney, Australia. Marisabel, despite completing multiple art-related courses, is mainly a self-taught artist. She has a background in medical imaging which she incorporates into her art practice.

How did you get into art?

My art journey began during my teenage years at the pottery wheel but slowly transitioned into traditional oil painting as kilns were not readily available in the area I lived. Through traditional painting I became familiar with all the art conventions and rules, but I discovered very early that none of these were applicable to my best forms of artistic expression. This allowed for a very organic migration into abstraction.