Inspiration is a synthesis of music, lyrics, and color for the artist Maia Nero. During her high school years she won several regional art awards, while her drawings of couture hair styles were exhibited in salons in and around the upstate NY area. Her passion for color, design and creative style were influenced by her musical family, as well as her environment where the change of the seasons produced a significant spectrum of color, light and harmony.
While attending the Fashion Institute of Technology where she earned degrees in Advertising and Communications, and later in Textile Surface Design, she pursued her vocal passion and studied music with noted arrangers, and vocal coaches in Manhattan. She continued evening courses and graduated with her second degree in textiles where she learned to master the medium gouache and developed her collection of faces in her innovative style she titled "Divisional Symmetry."
After graduating with her first degree she continued to study various elements of design, and eventually developed a collection of watercolor paintings for Piece of the Rainbow greeting cards. She continued studying different techniques and learned mono-printing in a private studio in the early vibe of lower Manhattan's Soho area.
She began exhibiting at galleries and outdoor shows while selling her paintings to private as well as corporate companies. She incorporated and self-published her art as posters where "Woman with a Certain Attitude" , her umbrella title, appeared in Modern Salon Magazine which lead her to exhibited at Art Expo and The International Beauty Show at the Jacob Javits Center.
Her passion for singing and writing has proven to be an inspiration that has driven her to write short stories, lyrics, and continue her artistic creativity. "A talented artist with a color sense and innovative style that offers Gicleé as an affordable gift that's the essence of the artist's master painting reincarnated," states Takashi Kamiya, Professional Member of the American Society of Interior Decorators (ASID) and the Chair of the Interior Design Department at the Fashion Institute of Technology.