Maria Isabel de Lince
María Isabel De Lince is a Colombian painter and psychologist whose artistic practice has developed through more than six decades of sustained engagement with color, light, nature, spirituality, and the emotional dimensions of visual experience. Born in Bogotá, where she continues to live and work, she is recognized for luminous abstract oil paintings that transform observations of the natural world into evocative fields of color, transparency, movement, and atmosphere.
Her relationship with art began in childhood, encouraged by a family environment in which painting, reading, nature, and faith were closely connected. She later studied Art and Architectural Design at Javeriana University and subsequently studied Psychology at the same institution. Her artistic education was further developed through studies with distinguished artists and masters David Manzur, Fernando Dávila, and Miguel Moyano.
Alongside her artistic career, De Lince practiced professionally as a psychologist. This experience contributed to her understanding of art as a powerful means of emotional and spiritual communication. Rather than illustrating psychological ideas directly, her paintings seek to create spaces of contemplation in which viewers may encounter feelings of peace, freedom, hope, joy, and connection.
Nature remains the central source of her visual language. Colombia’s oceans, forests, mountains, flowers, rivers, and extraordinary biodiversity have provided an enduring foundation for her work, alongside skies, galaxies, atmospheric phenomena, and the elemental forces of earth, air, water, fire, and ether. Originally working more figuratively, she gradually moved toward abstraction, allowing natural forms to become increasingly fluid, open, and expressive.
Working primarily in oil on linen, De Lince builds her compositions through transparent glazes and successive layers of pigment. Light appears to emerge from within the paintings, while blues, greens, violets, reds, ochres, and luminous tonal passages create changing sensations of depth, movement, and space. Her work brings together technical knowledge, intuition, spiritual reflection, and a deep concern for environmental responsibility.
Over the course of her career, her paintings have reached audiences across the Americas, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. Selected international presentations include exhibitions and art events in China, Qatar, Dubai, New York, Paris, Vienna, Venice, Barcelona, and Rome. In Colombia, significant venues have included the Edgar Negret Museum, the Museum of Modern Art in Bucaramanga, Museo Casa Grau, and the Salt Cathedral of Zipaquirá.
De Lince has also received numerous international distinctions and has been featured in books, catalogues, and art publications. Despite this recognition, she considers painting itself the essential focus of her career. Through abstraction, she continues to explore nature, human emotion, faith, and the possibility of finding beauty, light, and hope within an uncertain world.
Peace oil on linen 96 x 140 cm
Source of life oil on linen 120 x 85 cm
Love and fire oil on canvas 70 x 70 cm
Movie Screen Oil on linen 80 x 90 cm
Aurora Boreal, óleo sobre lienzo 70 x 100 cm
Have faith Oil on linen 100 x 70 cm
New Lands and New Skies 1 Oil on linen 100 x 140 cm
Amazon oil on linen 140 x 190 cm
New Lands and New Skies 2 oil on linen 70 x 100 cm
New lands and New Skyes 3 Oil on linen 80 x 60 cm
Amazonas Oil on linen 190 X 140
Cristal Sea 3 Oil on linen 90 x 140 cm
Lights on Earth Oil on linen 50 x 100 cm
