We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Marta Solaz a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.

Marta, thanks for joining us, excited to have you contributing your stories and insights. Did you always know you wanted to pursue a creative or artistic career? When did you first know?

It was something that came naturally. I was just doing what I was passionate about  when I realize that that had a name and  I was becoming an Artist. I remembered that the title, artist, was something too big to assume at that time, it was years later I recognize that in fact I’m a multidisciplinary artist. I combined Performing Arts Studies in Fine Arts at the University in Barcelona. I started working as an actress at a young age in TV, Theater, Films, Musical Theatre, since I was also a singer. Visual Art was something that I kept to myself, just for my own inner connection and joy.

As always, we appreciate you sharing your insights and we’ve got a few more questions for you, but before we get to all of that can you take a minute to introduce yourself and give our readers some of your back background and context?

I’m a multifaceted artist. I’m an actress, a singer, and I share my point of view  through the Visual Arts. My way to do it is through painting and mixed media with my own creations. I usually work with human figures on an abstract background, using acrylic, oils and threads.  I find inspiration in my human spiritual nature and share it with others through the images I create; like visual metaphors.  It is a process to understand me better, connect with my inner joy and beauty, and this packet of energy goes directly to who acquires. Helping to create inspiring and beautiful designs for collector’s homes.

Can you tell us about a time you’ve had to pivot?

It was when I moved to Los Angeles in 2018, that I started to let free that impulse that had always accompanied me but I had never shared professional. As an actress, I expected sooner or later to continue somehow with the lifestyle I’d been living in Madrid. I knew, obviously, that I needed time to settle up. So my goal was worked on my English level, taking acting classes, get an agent, etc. All of this plus I am a mom of two kids. So there I was, pushing myself to approach to where my mind was telling that was the correct step to do. I recorded some demos for voice over, and singing, sending emails, but somehow I was feeling drained. I felt I was dedicating so much energy in get someone to know me, someone to give me the opportunity to get that job. And more and more I founded myself thinking: ‘Ok, tomorrow I will deal with this and that, now I gonna paint a bit’. Those moments of the day started to be more and more extended, and I started to took them as my lifesaver . I started communication with myself through the act of painting.. I had my questions answered while creating, like magic. Really started to make me feel like If I was secretly in love with my art. Very shy to share with others at the beginning, like it was a private part of myself. But at the same time is it was growing inside and I started to understand better why; I realize that a smile was on my face when I was painting, and thought, this might be really good for my mind, my health, my soul. So that was what stick me to it, paint makes me good. No matter what others think of it, no matter if I am not in fashion right now, just keep painting, this makes you smiles. I never dreamed to be a Visual Artist, I never dreamed to exhibit in a gallery, not even sell my art. I didn’t know how it feels to see others, connecting deeply with what you created, like it really made their day. I didn’t know how great it can make you can feel being your own business. Every time I finish an artwork I feel the excitement of have materialize something that was in my soul and now is out.
An image with a meaning to be unlocked for the viewer. A certain energy that will spread into the homes. Like a circle that has been closed.
I feel that I had reinvented myself. I am not the person who waits for a job to come anymore, I am the creative and the source of my job.

We often hear about learning lessons – but just as important is unlearning lessons. Have you ever had to unlearn a lesson?

Clearly the lesson to be unlearned for me and for every creative mind, is to have an expectation on how the outcome must look. There are many stages in our process as artists, and one of them is clearly recognition, success, and get well paid. I agree that is important and attractive. But we need to learn how to manage those mirrors because we can get lost in the reflections. So as a creatives, I think it’s important to use creativity and imagination to find those paths that are healthier for ourselves and learn how manage expectations. We need to be very focused on our inner passion as the gas of our vehicle. Artists can transform the world if we are an example of this. If every human on this planet would feed their souls with creativity, we would be living in another society.

Contact Info:

• Website: www.solazart.com
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/solaz_art/