Arteles Catalogue 2023-2020
Arteles Creative Center's residency artists and their projects 2023-2020
Arteles Creative Center's residency artists and their projects 2023-2020
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Write & Create program / OCTOBER 2022<br />
Marta Carrascosa -<br />
Mtita Bamako<br />
Spain<br />
mtita-bamako.com<br />
About<br />
I am a creative entrepreneur managing three areas of work:<br />
I am the author and illustrator of children’s books. My book<br />
I HAVE A BIG FAMILY was happily published in English and<br />
Spanish by PintarPintar Editorial.<br />
I am the designer of Mtita Bamako, a lifestyle brand creating<br />
since 2003 limited editions of accessories, naïve paintings<br />
and dolls, inspired by diverse cultural references. I also work<br />
as a consultant for the EU in several African countries to<br />
support the development of cultural projects.<br />
Travelling continuously between Africa and Europe for<br />
more than 20 years I combine my professional activity as a<br />
Cultural Consultant for the EU with my work as a designer<br />
and illustrator.<br />
From my current location in Marrakech, I am now finalizing<br />
my third and fourth picture books: FOUR FRIENDS IN A<br />
ROCKET and THE MAN WHO KNITTED WILD PETS.<br />
CRAFTING WILD ANIMALS<br />
<strong>Arteles</strong> has been crucial to maintain a very demanding<br />
working rhythm for an entire month. It has allowed me to<br />
reach in a very joyful way the objective of finalising the 28<br />
illustrations of my next children’s book - THE MAN WHO<br />
CRAFTED WILD ANIMALS.<br />
I had a perfect studio full of natural light where I could<br />
concentrate and hide for long intensive painting/drawing<br />
sessions, but also very special moments to step back, relax<br />
my eyes and nourish my soul.<br />
Long bike rides to explore the openness of the landscape,<br />
regular walks in the forest to create that needed silence and<br />
headspace for creative ideas to arise, fantastic talks and<br />
shared moments at the kitchen with my creative mates, full<br />
body and mind detox at the sauna every second day…<br />
And most of all, it has contributed to feel confident, to<br />
share and explore, to be open to ideas, and to experience<br />
that sense of community that the place so much facilitates,<br />
making me feel that as an artist, I am not alone.<br />
The idea of a new book was born there too. Who knows?<br />
Maybe a new residency to write it there soon?
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