Maria Capelo (born 1970) is a Portuguese artist who paints mainly landscapes with Indian ink.
Her favourite locations for inspiration are the Baixo Alentejo Province of Portugal, the Piedmont region of Italy, and Extremadura in Spain.
[4][5] In 2013 she received a grant from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation to carry out a project called Da Sombra dos Montes (From the shadow of the mountains), as part of the foundation's "Support for Visual Arts – Artistic Research Projects" Programme.
[5][6] In 2022 Capelo was the winner of the Fundação Luso-Americana - Para o Desenvolvimento (Luso-American Foundation for Development – FLAD) Drawing Prize, winning €20,000.
All three of the judges selected her as the winner, observing that "Maria Capelo's work reveals a curious sense of adventure, producing images that are only apparently simple, from which she is able to recreate the landscape tradition in an innovative and surprising way".