Maja Meinhardt was born in Germany and began her career as a technical draftswoman. This soon expanded to include commercial art and fabric design. Since arriving in Australia, Maja has travelled extensively, opened her own business and designed her own collection of fashion wear.
She began studying watercolour and other mediums in 1989. She loves to work with colour, texture and pattern and often starts her paintings without sketching, developing them with visual impressions and imagination. Maja’s paintings reflect a love for nature and animals in a slightly dreamlike or magic world. She does not explain the meaning of her works, preferring people to find their own meaning.
Her studies have taken her all over the world. In 2006, Maja settled in the Blue Mountains where she continues her work in varied mediums. Maja has had several solo and group exhibitions and her work is represented in galleries in Sydney and News South Wales as well as in private collections throughout Australia and overseas.