Xamara L. Maisonet is a fine art photographer and mixed media artist based in Clermont, Florida. Her work explores travel, time, grief, and transformation through photography and painterly intervention. Rooted in travel and lived experience, her artistic journey began with a desire to document life as it unfolded.
Maisonet is currently completing her Master of Fine Arts degree at the Academy of Art University, with anticipated graduation in May 2026. She is an active exhibiting member and board member of the South Lake Art League, where she also teaches beginner digital photography classes and was recently nominated to lead the Photo Club. Through both her art and instruction, she is committed to fostering technical skill, visual literacy, and creative confidence within her community.
Her work has been exhibited in Central Florida and nationally in juried exhibitions, including the Lake County Museum of Art (Best Show 2D, 2024), SOBO Gallery, The Healthy West Orange Arts & Heritage Center Praxis Gallery, Snap Gallery, and Clermont City Center. Her work has also appeared in juried online exhibitions and publications, including Exhibizone, Life Framer, and the Academy of Art University Spring Show. In 2026–2027, she will present a solo exhibition, “Life Without You”, at The Healthy West Orange Arts & Heritage Center.
Her fine art series, “Our Time on Earth: Living the Dash; Freezing Seconds That Never Stopped”, established the foundation of her visual language. In this body of work, Maisonet blurs the boundary between stillness and motion, layering movement and still moments with light and compositional rhythm to suggest that time continues beyond the frame, that time never stops. Her images balance clarity and movement, inviting viewers to contemplate the tension between permanence and impermanence.
Her travel photography reflects a vibrant and dynamic aesthetic—natural light, saturated color, sharp contrast, and deliberate composition. Using leading lines, shapes, forms, negative space, and occasional motion blur, she constructs images that function as both standalone works and visual narratives.
Her new artwork practice has evolved into mixed media, where photography serves as her primary canvas. By incorporating acrylic paint directly onto photographic prints, she reconstructs and reinterprets the captured moment, transforming the depicted image into a dialogue. This painterly intervention shifts meaning and creates layered works that exist between photograph, painting, and words.
Her most personal and transformative body of work, “Life Without You”, emerged after the passing of her daughter. This ongoing thesis project integrates photography, text, and paint to navigate grief as both rupture and rebirth. The series functions as a visual elegy—an intimate meditation on loss, mourning, and transcendence. Through photographic composition, haiku poems, and paint, Maisonet transforms pain into beauty, allowing vulnerability to become a catalyst for artistic depth.
Expanding from this work is her newest project, “Recoloring Life.” Originating from within “Life Without You”, the series presents black-and-white photographs selectively enhanced with colored pencil and watercolor. This intentional reintroduction of color symbolizes adaptation—an acknowledgment that while grief reshapes existence, life continues to gather new hues. Where “Life Without You” embodies mourning, “Recoloring Life” embodies resilience.
Across all her work, Xamara Maisonet seeks to honor the fragile intersection between time and a moment in life. Whether through vibrant travel imagery or intimate mixed-media explorations of loss, her art invites viewers to pause, reflect, and recognize the beauty that persists—even when time doesn’t stop or in painful transitions in life.
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