This is one of the eight paintings I have ‘on the go’ at the moment – ‘Owl’ is 50 x 40 cm, oil on canvas.

Thanks to Pete Uhlenbruch of Owls of
the Swamp for posing 🙂

Dear Art,

I love you.

No matter where I have been in my life, there you are. You adapt so easily to whatever this crazy life of mine throws at me; from being in silly relationships, to art school where I felt intellectually inferior. From paper, to canvas and linen. From charcoal to watercolor, ink, cheap and nasty acrylic to sexy expensive I’m-not-going-to-eat-for-a-fortnight oil paints.

From words to drawings to paintings.

I love you with all of my heart, I thank you deeply for having patience
with me; when I get caught up in culture vulture scenes, worrying about trends and fretting about if I will ‘ever make it’.

You cross all boarders and give a voice to those who are voiceless.

You are an all mighty force that will never be stopped.

You’re super fucking cool.

Forever yours,
Lily.

It’s been a busy week but I have finished my piece for the Herzenbrecher exhibition at Strychnin Gallery Berlin, my Mum will be here so I am extra excited! Gene made this awesome video of me making the artwork, ‘ave a look:

Charlie and the Apple: Herzenbrecher Exhibition Berlin from Lily Mae Martin on Vimeo.

Each artist in this exhibition was given a heart made by the New English. It looked like this:
I have never used paints for porcelain that has already been glazed so I did a few tests using Marabu porcelain painters and markers. Here is what they looked like:

This is the outcome, he’s titled “Charlie and the Apple”

Opening on the 16th of March 2012, a partial amount of all sales will be given as a donation to “Ein Herz für Kinder”.

A special thank you to my dear friend Mijo for letting me use his music for the video. You can hear more of his tunes here: Mijo Biscan

Here are some paintings I have been working on this week.

Christian, 1 & 2 layers, oil on canvas.

Elena, 1 & 2 layers, oil on canvas.

Lucy, 1 & 2
layers, oil on canvas.

Last week I was interviewed by Platinum Cheese‘s Stephanie Chefas for Hi-Fructose magazine, you can read it here: Interview

I was asked some insightful questions and I am really proud of the whole outcome, thank you Stephanie!!

This is the flyer for the group show I have a piece in:

Opening on February the 25th at Cella Gallery in North Hollywood, titled Femme Fatale, curated by Nicole Bruckman & Stephanie Chefas, the image on the flyer is by artist Gail Potocki, who is just fucking amazing. Her website is here: Gail Potocki
The artist line up for the show is as follows:
Aaron Nagel, Apricot Mantle, Anna Chung, Aunia Kahn, Casey Weldon, Cate Rangel, Charles Ketcham, Chris Peters, Christopher Umana, Cristina Natsuko Paulos, Crystal Chan, David Bray, Dave MacDowell, Delphia, Douglas Alvarez, Edith Lebeau, Gail Potocki (shown above), Jason Rudulph Pena, JAW Cooper, Jeff Ramirez, Jessica Ward, JoKa, Jose Carabes, Ken Garduno, Korin Faught, Kris Moore, L.Croskey, Lily Mae Martin, Linnea Strid, Morgan Slade, Nicole Bruckman, Nom Kinnear King, Paul Chatem, Roman Cho, Sara Haase, Sarah Folkman, Stella Im Hultberg, Ted von
Heiland and THH70.

The piece I am showing is “I am, I am, I am”.

‘Femme Fatale’ opens Saturday, February 25th from 7-11pm, at Cella Gallery. To request a VIP preview, please email stephanie@platinumcheese.com

Saturday, February 25th 7-11pm
Cella Gallery
11135 Weddington St.
North Hollywood, CA 91601

Here are a few new paintings that I haven’t had a chance to digitalize- until today!

Alice is 100 x 80cm oil on canvas, like the Magdalena painting I did a few months back- I’m really into the hair.

Lilly- warm

Lilly- cold

These are little paintings, 50 x 40cm, oil on canvas. I did these in a matter of hours, they are more immediate than any of my other paintings, sort of letting loose and making impressions rather than building up layers and layers and refining everything. I really enjoyed these and hope to do a few more like this using some other amazing ladies I know.

Here is another smaller painting I started today- Christian, 50 x 40cm, oil on canvas. Off to a really good start with this one, successful undercoats always make me feel happy.

I did this last night in about 10 minutes. It’s for Berlin Domestic but I think she’s sweet and thought I’d post it here too.

I’m really sick of this weather, please be spring soon- even though the ice is pretty- go away.