Today we’d like to introduce you to Dayana Marti.
Hi Dayana, so excited to have you with us today. What can you tell us about your story?
All my life I have been linked to art. My great-grandfather, Mr. Rivodó, of French origin, filled the walls of my grandmother’s house in Caracas with Renaissance-style paintings, still lifes, and nature that signified the pride of our family roots. From a young age in Caracas, I began experimenting with acrylics, what at the time I knew as PopArt, very Warhol, young, challenging. In Miami, where I live with my family, opened other perspectives for me, and that is the path I am following right now; I don’t know where I will be tomorrow but today the art that is expressed through me is the happiness of my beautiful daughters, nature, what I feel and think while I go through everyday life. Like the French toast, I made a minute ago for my youngest daughter for breakfast, that allows me to write this while I watch her in the rite that for her, is a game.
Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way? Looking back would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
For me, creating from any point, tool, technique… from any space always has something of a struggle and confrontation. Something of dissatisfaction that pushes and turns whatever is being done into a necessity that does not allow you to abandon it until something happens (internal or external) and it is the moment in which it is time to decide which “ready or not” the piece should be released. I’m not complaining; my path in art has always been an approach of enjoyment and pleasure, of inspiration beyond the small internal struggles that we can all experience. Art is always a challenge.
Alright, so let’s switch gears a bit and talk business. What should we know about your work?
I graduated as a speech-language pathologist over 12 years ago, and specialized in kids with Autism. I chose to combine my love for horses and decided to become an equine therapist. What makes me most proud is my family, the one that reminds me of where I come from and the one that I have built with my husband in the last 17 years. I’m proud of my journey as a therapist and all the families that I am able to help. I take pride in the creative process and constant transition that I am, in my expedition as an artist. The evaluation and change that we constantly undergo and how I face that on the canvas.
Are there any important lessons you’ve learned that you can share with us?
Embrace change and the creative strength inherent in your own vulnerability.
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