Renegade Craft Fair

...is this weekend! Come on by for your Christmas presents of handmade goods and art! I'll be at booth 124 sharing with Ms Jen of Sprout Studios!

Here is the sweet motherlode of pillows with my especially designed and printed fabric and handsewed by my very own mom! I'll be bringing 'em to Renegade!


Along with original art, matted prints, block prints, magnets and new lucky elephant calendars that are really cute!

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french artist nathalie lete's work is so gorgeous... i want to make rugs like her!

*Studio Makeover*

Kelly came down to SF this weekend and in record time turned my studio from drab to fab! Thank you sweets! I'm having so. much. fun. creating now! View the whole set here.
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ETA LA

Peep! I've been a bit quiet lately on the blog-- busy working on several exciting projects! My latest bird collages for the Enormous Tiny Art Show in LA are from vintage & contemporary paper, letters, wallpaper and fabric. They are now available on-line here!

xoxoxoxo

Mati

Art Sustains Us Auction

I wanted to let folks know about this incredible auction to help a woman named Anandi who has cancer and is in need. You can read about the auction here and have a look and bid on some of the great handmade work available.

I contributed this stacked circus print on a wooden gallery block so it's ready to hang or stand on a shelf. Some of my favorite artists and friends~ Lisa Congdon, Eric Rewitzer, Annie Galvin, Amy Ruppel and Diana Fayt among many others have listed work to bid on for this excellent cause.

ONE YEAR!

Hello friends,

A couple of weeks ago it dawned on me that I had successfully supported myself fully on my art (during a recession!) for ONE YEAR. Hooray! In honor of that and your generosity in supporting me and my art, I offer a gift of a $100 shopping spree to one lucky person who buys something from my shoppe between now and November 15th.

Please enter into the notes when you buy something in my shoppe: ONE YEAR for your chance to win! Imagine all the art for yourself or for holiday gifts!

**Excluding Custom True Love necklaces since they are a collaboration.

Thank you *so* much,
Mati Rose

dia de los muertos

One of my favorite days of the year is November 2nd and Dia De Los Muertos. I've been drawn to it in concept for as long as I can remember and have been celebrating it in some form since moving to the Mission District almost 10 years ago.

I love building an altar for those who have passed to remember them. I also love the artful celebration mixed with somberness mixed with playfulness in acknowledging death as a natural part of life. How often do we do that?

Growing up, having lost my dad as a baby, I wish that there had been a ritual in our culture that it was acceptable for us to gather to celebrate him. Every year as we grow older more folks pass on and I add them to my memory list. In 2003 Hugh and I went to Oaxaca, Mexico to celebrate Dia de Los Muertos in the decorated cemeteries and I remember it was the year of Johnny Cash, my Papa and family friend Michael B. This past year I thought a lot about my step-sister's mom and her humor and spirit of adventure. Here are some photos of us this year enjoying tacos, ice cream and feeling so alive playing dead.

CORE: art & design of the torso

I sent my painted mannequin down to LA last week to join 15 others painted on by amazing artists. What an incredible and intense experience of painting on another body... as I was painting I felt a tickle in the places I was painting on. A little shiver down my spine, a chirping at my chest, and yet the mannequin or more aptly called "dress form" since it was only the torso, was much thinner and bustier and more idealized than I and most.... which brought up other conflicting feelings to ponder as I painted.

In any event, I ended up loving my mannequin and the experience of painting her. I can't wait to have her back in my studio and hope she has a blast hanging out with the other beauties. She is for sale too... at a high price as I'm counting on her return unless someone really loves her as much as I do ;) I'm imagining her as a great prop for future necklace photo shoots and the like!

Thank you Anne for all your hard work in organizing and hosting this spectacular show and concept! To Christine too... who has listed all the show deets and painted on the first mannequin to inspire the show!

I wish I could see them all in person, but I look forward to the photos! I'll be here celebrating Hugh's dad's 77th (!!) birthday and going to some great local shows including my friends Lisa and Amy's show at Rare Device. Bovids are very fun!

xoxox

Mati Rose

.... coming up are some photos from Dia de Los Muertos from earlier this week!

pdx

lately i've been day dreaming about my birthday and taking a trip up to portland with hugh (he's never been! a bike fanatic like him?) and staying at the ace.... {sigh}. i'd also like to see this lovely lady who always has a camera in hand. i came across these old bits of color and texture from my trip there about a year ago and am re-inspired...i realize i naturally document details to later draw inspiration upon for paintings. i'd like to learn more about photography as an art form, but for now it's fun to treat it like specimen gathering for paintings.

ORIGINAL work available!

Hi there,

I get lots of inquiries for original paintings so I thought I'd cull together a spot to look through all the available work!


I have original work available at Art Stream Studios, SF MIni Bar (at 837 Divis if you want to pop by), The Enormous Tiny Show and in my shoppe!

Thanks for looking! Please email me with any questions: matimcd(at)hotmail(dot)com