马小娟的作品自始至终展露着她那清淡的忧虑和落寞的柔情。不管是追怀遐思的闺秀、芳馨溢情的清荷、玄机暗蕴的回廊、古朴风雅的屏风，还是托腮凝思的现代女子、举着酒杯的纤纤素手、花藤下围坐喝咖啡、饮果汁，马小娟都以其独有的方式恰如其分地表达着其自身的文化底蕴和优雅气质。
她清醒地意识到过分的雕琢与装饰只会限制作品内在的素质与想象，所以舍去扭曲乖戾而取其婉约，放弃张扬的线条而倾情于柔顺、舒适。马小娟的聪颖在于她晓得画中的符号、线条对于她的作品及未来意味着什么。观者很容易就记住了她画面中那些极富象征意义的标记——淑女们额间的眼睛。高高在上的这些眼睛如风中之含羞草，如静水之细纹，如清晨之雾霭，清澈而迷离。
在现代绘画与古典绘画的交汇交融上，对于画面结构和空间的表述组织，马小娟显得理性而富于浪漫气息。在大氛围、大轮廓的建构上，她以漫不经心略带变形的线条，传递出一种散淡而又绵密的心境，既温和又均匀，时间在此已不起作用，期待这一刻能够永远。读者甚至可以置身她画中的淑女们在潺潺流溪边静思遐想时常处的境界。这种心灵的沟通无须瞻前顾后而又让人沉迷。马小娟的绘画可以看作是新古典主义的延伸，她成功地将现代绘画的空间概念、平面构成、色彩的整体性及倾向性纳入水墨画的领域，并使之个性化。
The Beautiful
being is Blossom quietly
Xia yu
Through her works, Ma Xiaojuan has been properly expressing her faint worries and tender feelings. We’ll see her graceful and cultural temperament from her painting works including thinking girls, fragrant lotus, deep and quiet winding corridor, elegant screen, modern ladies who, holding cups with their soft delicate hands, have wine or coffee under the flower vine, etc.
She clearly realized that she’ll discard the perverse and keep the restraint, and discard exaggerated lines in pictures and keep the soft and the suitable, because excessive elaboration will limit one’s imagination. Ma Xiaojuan is very clever to know what lines in pictures mean. Readers are easy to remember what her paintings mean. Eyes of beauties are clear and blurred, looked like mimosa in the wind and ripples on the water.
Ma Xiaojuan is both rational and romantic as she combines modern with classical paintings. On the structure of painting, she gives expression to her gentle feelings using somewhat twisted lines in picture. It will last forever. Readers even can put themselves in the midst of pictures, thinking quietly for a long time. Ma Xiaojuan has carried forward neoclassicism and has been succeed in combining modern painting with ink painting individually.