MURALS · MOSAICS · STAINED GLASS · LITURGICAL DESIGN
Sacred art made by hand, metre by metre, for the house of God.
More than 3,000 m² in churches and chapels across Brazil. An exhibition at the Vatican and works in the collection of the Fátima Sanctuary.
Studio and gallery in Sinop, Mato Grosso, Brazil
- Sala Stampa, Vatican, Synod for the Amazon
- Honourable mention at three exhibitions at the Louvre
- “Maria às pressas”, presented to Pope Francis, 2022
- Collection of the Museum of Sacred Art and Ethnology, Fátima
- Museu Tesouro da Misericórdia, Viseu
- 26 awards
- Sacred Artists’ Ministry of the CNBB
HOW A WORK IS BORN
The wall, from sketch to light.
- ISketch
First, the sketch. The drawing is studied with the community and transferred to the wall at full scale.
- IIMosaic
Then stone and glass. Each tessera is cut and laid by hand, one by one.
- IIILight
Light does the rest. The stained glass is designed for the hour of Mass and the side of the sun.
- IVChurch
This, on a real church wall. She has already done more than 3,000 m² this way.
Illustrative drawing for this demo
COMPLETED PROJECTS
Parishes that already pray before these walls.
Murals, mosaics and stained glass in Mato Grosso and Tocantins, planned with the parish priest and the community before the first line.
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Catedral Sagrado Coração de Jesus
Sinop · MT
About 450 m² painted over five years, from 2006
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Nossa Senhora Aparecida
Gurupi · TO
Sacred art for the church and its façade
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2 more churches and the before and after
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Nossa Senhora da Rosa Mística
Lucas do Rio Verde · MT
Murals in the sanctuary
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Paróquia Mãe de Deus
Matupá · MT
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LITURGICAL DESIGN
The same church, before and after.
From bare concrete to a space ready for the celebration.
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CRAFTS
Six crafts, one prayer.
Each technique is chosen for the wall, the light and the parish budget.
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Murals and panels
Oil and pigment on texture
Painting that covers the whole wall, designed to be read from the last pew of the nave.
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Mosaic
Stone and glass
Tesserae cut and laid by hand. It lasts for centuries and changes colour with the time of day.
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Stained glass
Glass and lead
Light comes in with colour. The design is planned for the side of the sun and the hour of Mass.
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Sawdust
Her own technique
Sawdust gathered from sawmill dumps becomes relief and texture in the painting.
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Liturgical design
The whole space
Altar, ambo, tabernacle and sanctuary designed together, in line with liturgical and canonical norms.
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INCULTURATION
The Gospel with the face of the Amazon.
The Amazônia series, the first phase of her work, received 20 awards in Europe and was shown in the Sala Stampa at the Vatican during the Synod for the Amazon.
Saints, animals and the colours of the forest enter sacred art with the same reverence as the Madonnas.
THE ARTIST
From the classroom to the Sala Stampa.
Born in Marechal Cândido Rondon, Paraná, and based in Sinop, in northern Mato Grosso. She studied mosaic, painting, drawing and iconography in Italy.
She holds postgraduate degrees in Sacred Art and Liturgical-Celebrative Space and in Mariology, teaches Mariology at the Faculdade Dehoniana and the Academia Marial de Aparecida, and is part of the Sacred Artists’ Ministry of the CNBB.
- 3.000 m²
- in churches and chapels
- 26
- awards
- 8+
- countries with awards
- 2014“Maria Discípula Missionária”, 49 works in Fátima and Viseu
- 2015Basilica of Sant’Ambrogio, Milan, and the London Biennale
- VATICAN“Amazônia” exhibition, Sala Stampa
- 2019Artwork for the 13th Mariological Congress, Aparecida
- 2022“Maria às pressas”, presented to Pope FrancisRead on Vatican News ↗
Mari Bueno is, above all, brave. Difficulties? Huge dimensions? That’s her thing. […] She takes on roads and distances, scaffolds at great heights, all kinds of surfaces and techniques, difficult themes, facing everything like a missionary, an anchor of faith.
The Madonnas look at us with love, perfectly rendered with masterfully drawn lines where nothing is left to chance […], taking us back to the first millennium of Christian art, all the way to Giotto and Fra Angelico.
What Wizia prepared for Mari
Mari Bueno’s plan, piece by piece.
- The complete 90-day Action Plan
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- The bio link with a path for each audience · already designed
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// Strategic diagnosis · channel audit
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HOW A PROJECT WORKS
From the first conversation to the blessing.
- IConversation
With the parish priest and the council: the community’s devotion, the space and the budget.
- IIVisit or photos
We measure the wall, or work from the floor plan and photos the parish sends.
- IIIDesign
A study of the drawing and colours, approved by the parish (and by the diocesan commission when the diocese asks).
- IVExecution
On site, with scaffolding and a team. The timeline depends on the area and the technique.
- VHandover
The work ready for the blessing and the first celebration.
PROJECT REQUEST
Tell us what your church needs.
Four quick questions. Your message to Mari builds itself alongside as you answer.
VISIT
Visit the gallery.
Original works and the Amazônia series, in Sinop, northern Mato Grosso.
SACRED ART ACADEMY
Learn to draw the sacred.
Courses and mentoring for artists who want to work in sacred art, with theological grounding and technique. Classes coming soon.
Meanwhile, free lessons on YouTube ↗The Academy unlocks with the diagnosis