I’m a Spanish illustrator and tattoo apprentice, and I also work as an actress and alternative model when the stars sweetly align. I love to dance like a maenad, autumn, abysses, wind and bonfires; and I love to sing and listen to intimate, feral, whispering, and a bit terrible songs.

I strongly believe that art is a form of magic, and as such it can act like an emblem, a balm or a weapon with the power to shout, roar, laugh or caress in our name, and speak about all those things that are not talked about. I love to illustrate lyrical and strange stories, and I have a soft spot for mythology, symbolism and the occult.

I have worked for private clients and illustrated several books. My two favourite works in this last field are the cover for “La habitación de las ahogadas” de Alana S. Portero, published by La Bella Varsovia, a beautiful, visceral, devastated, powerful poetry book, like a silver dagger sinking into the ocean; and the young adult book “Rojo y Oro”, written by Iria G. Parente and Selene M. Pascual and published by Alfaguara (Penguin Random House). I have shops on Etsy and Redbubble.

As a singer and an actress, I understand performing as an invocation and theatre as a ritual. I was lucky enough to find some other souls that cherished the same crazy ideas, and together we founded the theatre company and multidisciplinary collective STRIGA, where I performed, sang my terrible songs, designed and took charge of other image-related tasks. Together we gave birth to Hambre, an adaptation of Sarah Kane’s Blasted.

As an alternative model, I love to participate in beautiful and raw projects, such as the photoshoots that Alana, Marta Huguet, Lua Quiroga Paúl and myself did inspired “La habitación de las ahogadas”. You can see some samples on the Modelling section.

Regarding social media, you can find me on Mastodon, Pixelfed and Cara, where I’m happy and would love to see you. I’m also on Bluesky and Instagram, but I’m quite uncomfortable and absent there because the algorithms on those kind of platforms and their persistence on stealing our art to train AIs have us artists absolutely in despair, and besides I’m totally against their biases and permissibility regarding harassment, fascism and massively selling user’s private data to third parties. I have a Patreon where I post lots of exclusive material for my patrons, although for now it’s only available in Spanish. For more sites and links, feel free to check my Linktree.

 

Contact

I’m available for commissions as well as potential employment opportunities. If you want to ask me about possible commissions, collaborations, projects or other inquiries, you can send a message to mardelvalle@protonmail.com and I will write back as soon as I can.