Home » Authors » Ximena Maier

Ximena Maier

Ximena Maier is an illustrator and ceramicist. She has been in the trade for over twenty years, working on books, magazines, films, advertisements, murals, and countless other formats. She also draws incessantly in hundreds of sketchbooks, almost always in watercolor. Her ceramics draw from the traditions of Talavera, Portugal, and Seville, blended with her unique way of storytelling through illustration.

She currently lives in a house in Alentejo, Portugal, nicknamed #laquintinha, surrounded by olive and orange trees, with her husband, two children, two dogs, a cat, two cockatoos, and a beehive under the roof that ensures the presence of bee-eaters in the summer.

Reviews

Of illustrator Ximena Maier (Madrid, 1975), one could say the same as of Jules Tavernier (1844–1889), who was 'known for vigorously painting any surface at hand'; because she clearly paints as a craft, but above all for pleasure. And it shows.

Paula Fernández de Bobadilla, Libro sobre libro

Ximena Maier is like a character drawn by herself — expressive and quick, full of lines and vibrant, translucent colors, capable of conveying an explosive personality with just a few strokes.’ She has embellished many books and authored a few beautiful ones herself.

Enrique García-Máiquez, Nueva Revista

She had previously worked with the Prado Museum and Madrid’s Museum of Natural Sciences. Now, the brilliant illustrator Ximena Maier sets the latest of her illustrated children’s stories at the Teatro Real — a chameleonic and magical place capable of turning into a shining castle or an enchanted garden.

Telva

Illustrator Ximena Maier has a restless character and a drawing style that captures what she sees with the wonder of a first glance. Restlessness and wonder are two words that aptly describe the work of this illustrator who studied Fine Arts in Seville. Inquietud y sorpresa son dos palabras que describen bien el trabajo desarrollado por esta ilustradora que estudió Bellas Artes en Sevilla.