Angela Maritz is a South African-born contemporary artist based in Tauranga, New Zealand. Working primarily in acrylic and mixed media, she creates expressive paintings driven by colour, movement and the desire to give visual form to emotions that are difficult to put into words.

Moving between florals, landscapes, figurative work and layered abstraction, Maritz allows feeling to guide her process. Her distinctive use of colour and mark-making creates images that are suggestive rather than literal, inviting viewers to look closer and discover something new with each encounter.

Her work is held in private and corporate collections internationally, and she exhibits across New Zealand, Australia and abroad.

Career highlights include a five-year commission for The Peninsula Hotel in Cape Town, a contemporary art course scholarship in Venice during the Biennale, selected as one of four artists within New Zealand and Australia for Avis Car Hire’s Art of Discovery campaign, and a collaboration with a New York fashion designer.