Maureen Gubia is an autodidact freelance artist who uses art materials from watercolors and pastels to oil paint. Her other creative outlets include photography and music recordings. She was born in 1984 in Guayaquil, Ecuador, where she continues to live and work.

She is currently working on promotional artwork for panda bear/noah lennox and contributing to worldwider art project based in tokyo
(http://www.worldwiderart.com/)

(this interview excerpt is taken from Svartkonst 1, a Swedish artzine)

What’s your favorite thing about where you live? Things are easily available and within reach.

What or who inspires you at the moment? Sticky weather, online penpals, ubu web.

What’s your daily routine? Wake up at 3 am, browse the internet, sketch out ideas, wait till it’s time for the post office to open, check my mail/send out envelopes, make field recordings later to be used in musicmaking, take pictures of the city pretending to be a tourist, sometimes going to the cinema by the breakwater, sometimes skipping sleep..

What’s the general process in your work? Dream up an image/looking for found pictures, make thumbnails in my sketchbook, write down some notes and then seeing what i can come up with using my scanner and photoshop.

Want to add something else? I just want to travel and take pictures, direct a beautiful mess of a film and make field recordings/loops of every place i manage to discover and visit. And meet up with my online penpals scattered throughout the globe (penpal island).

Maureen’s website: http://www.mgubia.com/

Maureen designed these spooky t-shirts for graniph…..