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Maz McCorkle's digital portraits inspired by Lisbon are bursting with summery colours

Visual artist and illustrator Maz McCorkle loves to use a fresh, summery palette of oranges, yellows and pinks to create mainly digital portraits of the characters she meets in Portugal, where she's currently based.

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Stylised illustration of a person with purple skin and facial features rendered in a geometric style, surrounded by overlapping shapes in orange, yellow and pink tones against a grey background with diagonal lines

After graduating from The University of Texas in Austin, she lived briefly in Nicaragua and re-located to Lisbon, where she illustrates for an animation studio. Beyond illustration, Maz works with mixed-media and ceramics, and her work has been displayed in San Diego, Mexico City, and Lisbon.

"I've lived in Portugal for over a year now and I've noticed that the colours and people that I see walking down the street are appearing in my work," says Maz. "The plan is for these characters and scenes, in addition to many more, to come together to create a large city scene that further explores, complicates, and relates each of them."

Abstract portrait of a figure with black hair, white face and orange, purple and peachy tones against a yellow background, by Maz McCorkle
Maz McCorkle's digital portrait of a woman with orange hair and blue eyes, wearing glasses and holding a cigarette, rendered in warm oranges, yellows and purples
Colourful digital illustration of a figure with asymmetrical facial features in shades of pink, orange and yellow, wearing a patterned purple jacket and holding a cigarette against a mustard background
Colourful digital illustration of ceramic vessels and abstract forms with warm golden, orange and pink tones against a purple background
Maz McCorkle's digital portrait of a man with wavy blue hair and freckled face wearing a yellow jacket, set against a warm coral and pink cityscape
Colourful digital portrait of a person with geometric facial features in warm oranges, reds and blues, wearing a purple shirt against a textured orange brick background
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