Nuria Oliva paints the textures of memory and home. Working across acrylic, resin, oil and pastel, she gathers domestic ritual, femininity and family into layered, tactile surfaces — paintings that treat the everyday as something worth preserving rather than something to move past. Her available originals at Art of NOMA run from USD 908 to USD 2,041.
The Kitchen Table as Serious Subject Matter
Domestic life is easy to paint badly — either sentimentalised or held at an ironic distance. Oliva does neither. Recolectar y cocinar con la Abuela — gathering and cooking with grandmother — is oil on cotton canvas at 90 × 97 cm (USD 2,041), and it stays with the source material: the inherited gestures of a kitchen, the specific warmth of a remembered afternoon, loosened slightly at the edges the way memory actually behaves.
La Balsa “Infancia de verano” (oil on raw cotton canvas, 116 × 73 cm, USD 1,250) turns the same attention on childhood. The cotton is left raw so the unbleached ground sits under the image rather than behind it, and the upright format gives the scene a looking-up quality — memory framed tall, which is roughly how a child sees a summer.
Pieces of What We Are
The Piezas de lo que somos series — pieces of what we are — is where her thinking is most explicit. Piezas de lo que somos II is the largest available work in the group at 123 × 113 cm (USD 1,584); Piezas de lo que somos III follows at 118 × 88 cm (USD 1,359).
The related Piezas de energía (oil and pastel on raw gray cotton canvas, 118 × 88 cm, USD 1,639) moves a heart to the centre of the composition — not as a symbol but as a nucleus mid-transformation. Pastel sits dry and powdery against the oil, the weave stays visible, and the surface keeps a worked, unresolved quality that suits a painting about feeling as a process. Desde el cielo (acrylic, pastel and oil on cotton canvas, 118 × 88 cm, USD 1,925) lifts the same register upward, the upper field left open and light while the surface below gathers texture.
Why Do the Smoothie Paintings Look So Different?
Because they are the same warmth with everything else taken out. Smoothie Fucsia and Smoothie Blue are small squares — 28.5 × 28.5 cm, USD 908 each — in acrylic and resin on canvas, framed in fluorinated methacrylate. The poured resin seals the colour under a glassy layer, so the pink and the blue deepen and hold a wet sheen; the surface behaves less like paint than like something set in glass.
Set against the layered domestic scenes, they read as a distillation rather than a departure. Where the large works build memory in tactile layers, the Smoothie pieces reduce it to a single charged colour. The preoccupation is identical. Only the register changes.
A Body of Work That Keeps Circling Home
Oliva's catalogue rewards being read as a whole. Earlier paintings including Terreno fértil, Love Story, You and Good things are coming have already found collectors and are no longer available, but they map the same territory — family, femininity, the emotional weight carried by ordinary objects and ordinary rooms. Seeing them alongside the current works makes the consistency obvious.
Where to Start With Nuria Oliva
There are two natural entry points. The Smoothie squares at USD 908 are the most accessible originals in the collection and the easiest to place in a small room. Above USD 1,500, the large layered canvases — Piezas de energía, Desde el cielo, Recolectar y cocinar con la Abuela — are the works that carry the practice, each unique, mounted on a professional frame and supplied with a certificate of authenticity.
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Common Questions About Nuria Oliva
Who is Nuria Oliva?
Nuria Oliva is a contemporary painter represented by Art of NOMA. She paints the textures of memory and home, working across acrylic, resin, oil and pastel to gather domestic ritual, femininity and family into layered, tactile surfaces.
What medium does Nuria Oliva work in?
Acrylic, resin, oil and pastel, frequently combined in a single work and often on raw or unbleached cotton canvas so the weave stays part of the image. The Smoothie pieces use poured resin over acrylic; the larger canvases layer oil and pastel.
How much does a Nuria Oliva painting cost?
Available originals run from USD 908 for a 28.5 × 28.5 cm Smoothie work to USD 2,041 for Recolectar y cocinar con la Abuela at 90 × 97 cm. Most large-format canvases sit between USD 1,250 and USD 1,950. Each is a unique original with a certificate of authenticity.
What size are Nuria Oliva's paintings?
They range from 28.5 × 28.5 cm for the Smoothie squares to 123 × 113 cm for Piezas de lo que somos II. Most of the layered canvases fall between 90 and 123 cm on the longest side. Exact dimensions in centimetres and inches are listed on every piece.
Where can I buy original Nuria Oliva art?
Original paintings by Nuria Oliva are available directly from Art of NOMA, an online gallery, with insured worldwide shipping. Browse the available works on her artist collection page.
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