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Original artwork and illustrated collections created in Malta.

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Quiet Garden — an expressive painting of a Mediterranean courtyard in blush and sage

Colour, feeling and everyday rooms.

Original paintings and archival prints made slowly in a limestone studio a few streets from the water.

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In her own words

I create expressive pieces inspired by colour, nature, memory and the small moments that make a place feel like home.

Textured blue and white trail behind a small red boat on a pale background

Originals

A minimal horizon print in powder blue and butter yellow

Prints

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A bright bird on a branch among green leaves and pink flowers
Blush
Loose colourful flowers over pale blue with peach and yellow stripes
Sage
Textured blue and white trail behind a small red boat on a pale background
Blues

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An expressive harbour painting in warm gold and lavender

Salt & Citrus

A soft abstract morning study in peach and lavender

Quiet Hours

A set of pastel greeting cards laid on ivory linen

Small Works & Paper

An illustrated sleepy fox print from the Kids Corner collection

Kids Corner

Colourful textured flowers from the commissioned painting Chaos in Bloom

Commissions

Original Artworks

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Behind the paintings

Made by hand, a few streets from the water

Mafduarte Studio is a Malta-based artist creating expressive work that celebrates colour, imagination and personal connection. Each piece develops through an intuitive process of layering, mark-making and experimentation.

She works mostly in oil and soft pastel, often on linen, and almost always with the shutters open.

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Artist portrait in the studio

In the studio

How the work is made

Every painting begins in a sketchbook and ends somewhere else entirely. Colour is mixed by hand in small batches, layers are buried and recovered, and prints are proofed on cotton rag until the tone sits exactly where the original does.

Sketchbook studies on linen
Pastel oil paint mixed on a wooden palette
Close-up of thick brushwork
An expressive harbour painting in warm gold and lavender

Collection story

Salt & Citrus

Salt & Citrus began with a summer of walking the same route between the studio and the water. The collection follows that walk: the glare off the creek, bougainvillea against pale stone, and the terrace at the end of the day when everything softens.

“Malta gives you two colours before anything else — limestone and sea. Everything in this collection sits between them.”
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Commissions

Made especially for you

Have a meaningful idea, memory, person, pet or space in mind? Work directly with the artist to create a one-of-a-kind piece.

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A commissioned painting of bougainvillea against limestone

Kind words

From the people living with the work

  • “It arrived beautifully wrapped and the colour is even softer in person. It has completely changed the feeling of our hallway.”

    Elena Bugeja

    Sliema · Still Morning · Verified buyer

  • “I commissioned a piece for my wife's fortieth. Lucija asked exactly the right questions and sent progress photographs the whole way through.”

    Thomas Reiner

    Munich · Commissioned painting · Verified buyer

  • “The print quality is genuinely lovely — proper cotton paper with real weight to it. Framed it locally and it looks like an original.”

    Sarah Whitlock

    Bristol · Soft Horizon · Verified buyer

  • “I visited the studio before buying and I am so glad I did. Seeing the work in daylight, next to the sketchbooks, made the choice obvious.”

    Marija Camilleri

    Mosta · Ħaġar Bloom · Verified buyer

From the studio

Journal

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  • A palette of soft pastel oil paint in the studio
  • Open sketchbook with flower studies
  • Close-up of textured brushwork
  • A painting of a terrace at dusk
  • Greeting cards laid out on linen
  • Canvases leaning against a limestone studio wall

Studio notes

Letters from the studio

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A large pastel painting hanging in a calm ivory room

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