Marcela creates visions of a joyous and free inner world, built up through intuitive layers of color and brushstrokes that crescendo upwards. Marcela’s style changes subtly to encompass the mood and tone at the time of creation as well the messages and connections between her and the viewer. She utilizes whatever will best suit her composition, combining fabric collage, gold leaf and found materials into her canvases. Her brushstrokes transform from explosions of pointillist fire through to long, languid strokes and stippled color-fields. What is so distinctive about Marcela’s works is her exuberant palette of colors. Part of the reason she favors acrylics is the intensity of the unadulterated paint straight from the tube, the speed with which it dries keeping them distinct and unmixed with further workings. The immediacy of the works and their vitality connects to the viewer on a more visceral, spiritual level and allows them to connect directly with Marcela’s vision.
Marcela, born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, currently lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area, CA.
For me a canvas is a place where the unknown meets the known. My pallet is highly saturated with little or no mixing. I avoid rule-following, especially the rule about ‘staying on one side of the color wheel’. I feel complete freedom and enthusiasm when I paint; any conscious mental process diminishes the fun for me. My inspiration comes mainly from within; my internal impressions at the moment of connection between me and the blank surface, not from outside objects or preconceived ideas. It is a release, an internal exploration and the acceptance of what I create as it presents itself. I can only guide it, my personal journey in search of myself.
