At an early age Maris began showing evidence that he had inherited his grandmother's phenomenal and unique manner of reflecting the color and light in nature. Maris belonged to Zemudene, a group of young artists in the 1970's who were trained on a regular basis for five years by well known Latvian artist Biruta Delle. Delle and Zemudene were written about in detail in “Art of the Baltics: The Struggle for Freedom of Artistic Expression Under the Soviets, 1945-1991” by Alla Rosenfeld, Norton Townshend Dodge. His formal drawing courses were at the Art Instittue of...more
