Spanish artist Maite Benet's paintings are characterized by unrestrainedly colorful imagery, refreshing simplicity and a wonderful earnestness of emotion. The figures in her paintings are voluptuous and exuberant, rendered with such fullness that their corporeal presence seems more sculptural than painterly.

Each figure is the protagonist in his or her own narrative world—subjects rich with personality, buoyant in character. Benet's painting style is playful and vibrant, and has an elemental anima with roots in the art of prehistory—an unaffectedness of composition and form, a purity of color. Benet's works also have a discernibly Spanish gusto, recognizable in her lively portrait of a toreador, in her early-Picasso-esque figurative style.

Benet was born in Castellón and now resides in Oropesa, a Mediterranean town where she works in her studio and gallery by the sea. Benet has a degree in fine arts from the Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, and has exhibited artwork in Spain, the UK, Switzerland, France and the United States.

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