Hi, I'm Maja.
I'm a visual artist, illustrator, and video creator based in Barcelona. A city full of color, chaos, and coffee, which is pretty much also how I would describe my creative process...
With love for vibrant colors, bold shapes, and honest expression. My work is rooted in the messy, beautiful journey of showing up as we are: soft, strong, quiet, loud – human.
I believe art can be a bridge back to yourself. This is my space, and you're warmly invited in.
the vision behind malumias.
My work is driven by the search for authenticity — in life, in creativity, in the body.
Through bold, minimal figures and raw, intuitive forms, I explore what it means to be seen. To be vulnerable. To take up space. Most of my paintings feature nude bodies — often faceless, simplified, a little awkward. Just like most of us.
They rarely look like anyone, but somehow still feel like everyone.
There is something deeply freeing about simplifying the human form, removing the pressure of perfection, and allowing emotion to be the main character.
I want my art to feel like a quiet mirror.
When I first started painting naked bodies, I was weirdly uncomfortable with it. But over time, I found it healing. Now it is becoming my way of processing life – of turning feelings into visual language.
Like a reminder that you’re allowed to show up just as you are.
Art became the thing I reached for when everything else felt too loud. Now, I share it in the hope that it might do the same for someone else. That is really what drives me – not just the making of the art, but what it makes possible for others.
I’m less interested in teaching people how to paint, and more in helping them reconnect with why they want to. I believe art doesn’t need to be polished or perfect — it just needs to be felt.
Especially for people who have felt stuck, scared, or like they didn't belong.
In everything I share — from paintings to prints to studio vlogs — I hope to create space for reflection, softness, and self-trust.
If my work invites you to take a deep breath, feel something real, or finally open your sketchbook again — then it’s doing exactly what it was meant to do.
Thank you for being here!