Photography has been Maria's passion for more than 20 years now. Although originally self-taught she supplemented her skills and knowledge with formal qualifications from South Nottingham College.  In the summer of 2005 she realised a long time ambition and opened Lace Market Photography; a relaxed and contemporary studio in the heart of Nottingham city centre.

Her background lies in traditional film photography and Maria still finds darkroom work and the hand preparation a very rewarding and personal experience.  However, Maria is also embracing today's new technology and welcomes the new challenges and opportunities that digital photography offers.

Portraiture is the mainstay of her business both in the studio and on location with families, kids, performers and models, dogs, cats and horses being her main niche subjects, but she still loves to get out and about to capture beautiful land and seascapes, and flora and fauna, both here in the UK and overseas.

Having started her photographic life using colour film and transparencies, she laterly embraced working with black and white film, finding that often her chosen subjects such as plants, driftwood, pebbles etc, all of which incorporate and reflect her interest in shape, form and texture, lend themselves particularly well to monochrome production. 

Outside of work Maria is an avid Liverpool football fan, likes to play golf with her husband, and loves taking leisurely walks with her dog.

She is well travelled, having visited many European destinations, as well as many of the Caribbean islands, lots of trips to America and also spent a year in Australia and New Zealand some years ago.