Marian Martinez
I am a botanical
colourist and Earth artist exploring traditional techniques to create site-specific art and hand-dyed one-of-a-kind pieces.
My philosophy
My work is motivated by a sense of urgency regarding current ecological crises and, simultaneously, by a deep and unwavering reverence for the natural world in all its diversity and resilience.
Incorporating mediums such as printmaking, natural dyeing, and gardening, I approach artistic creation as a way to build a relationship with the earth, and each artistic gesture as an opportunity to strengthen the connections between myself and the countless natural processes and beings that sustain collective life on this planet.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2024 Collaboration with the Designer SIN PATRON in the elaboration of a design for the Fashion Event at the La Encartada Beret Factory-Museum. Balmaseda. Bizkaia. Spain
2024 Good plant: a tribute to the vegetal universe from the textile. Collective exhibition of the Textile Creators Association-ACT. Royal Botanical Garden. Madrid. Spain
2024 Collaboration in the dyeing of part of the clothing of the Exhibition From the Camera to the Needle – Kameratik Orratzera with the Basque Museum of Bilbao – Euskal Museoa at the La Encartada Beret Factory-Museum. Balmaseda. Bizkaia. Spain
2023 Matter, craft and soul. Collective exhibition of the Textile Creators Association – ACT. Association of artisans of Aragon. Zaragoza. Spain
2023 Matter, craft and soul. Collective exhibition of the Association of Textile Creators – ACT. La Encartada Beret Factory-Museum. Balmaseda. Bizkaia. Spain
2022 Entre Lanas Exhibition: Exhibition focused on highlighting the potential of wool to create functional, decorative and artistic works. Diputación Foral de Badajoz. Spain
2022 Matriz Índigo Exhibition. Ava Gallery. Astoria-Oregon USA USA
2022 Green Renaissance Project Exhibition. The Palbok Art Factory at the Geumgang Natural Art Biennial in the city of Jeonju, Korea.
2022 Exhibition at the Geumgang Natural Art Biennial. Korea
2022 XVIII Small and Medium Format Textile Art Exhibition. MAP Museum of Popular Art, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Indigo Shade Map Exhibition. Participation in the Baltimore Natural Dye Symposium Spring Series Online. Doong-ji: Online Exhibition of Natural Dyes | MICA
- Participation in the INDIGO SHADE MAP project. www.indigoshademap.org It is an initiative that reflects how a particular natural dye is still widely and continuously practiced today.
- Participation @artfestonline, an event that was designed to promote the arts during the time of confinement due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Creation of KOKORO Indigo Culture & Crafts, as a means to develop a culture based on natural indigo dyeing. In addition to growing my own indigo plants, I make artistic creations based on this natural dye.
COURSES AND EDUCATION IN NATURAL DYES
2022 COURSE ON PRINTING AND PAINTING WITH NATURAL DYES. Maiwa School of Textiles. Vancouver, Canada
- NATURAL DYE WORKSHOP COURSE. Maiwa School of Textiles. Vancouver, Canada
- ONLINE COURSE ON SMALL SCALE SUKUMO Debra Ketchum Jircik. Circle of life studio. Wisconsin. USA
- INDIGO COURSE: PASTEL (ISATIS TINCTORIA) AND SUKUMO. Professional training in indigo dyeing on natural textiles David Santandreu master dyer. Courniu. France.
2019 BOTANICAL PRINTING WORKSHOP. CARI CALLEJO TEXTILE WORKSHOP. Cantabria. Spain
WORKS AND AWARDS
2024 Collaboration in the study of indigo plants with Professor Zvi Koren, expert in indigoid studies at the Shenkar College of Engineering, Design and Art in Ramat Gan.
2022-2023 Advice on the cultivation of indigo plants and the implementation of an industrial processing system for the pigment derived from the indigo plant Persicaria tinctoria. Tintoremus Company. Extremadura. Spain
2023 Textile Meetings Conference: Natural Dyes. Organized by the Association of Textile Creators. ACT
2022 Conference on Natural Indigo: The sustainable fashion revolution, within the celebration of the National Indigo Day. CCWA- Craft Council of Weavers & Artisans. Jaipur. India
2020-2024 Indigo dyeing courses for different municipalities. Spain
2019 First prize for business ideas in the Encartaciones area. Spain
PROFESSIONAL TRAINING
Master in Social Exclusion, Integration and Citizenship. National University of Distance Education. 2017
Expert in immigration, exclusion and integration policies. National University of Distance Education. 2016
Professor’s degree. CAP. Complutense University of Madrid. 2006
Master’s degree in Development and International Cooperation. University of the Basque Country. 2001
Bachelor’s degree in Social and Information Sciences, University of the Basque Country, 2000