I’m a Spanish illustrator and tattoo apprentice, an actress and, occasionally, an alternative model. 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. Some works in this last field are the cover for Alana S. Portero’s Cosamala (Seix Barral, 2026); the cover for Alana’s poetry book La habitación de las ahogadas (La Bella Varsovia, 2025); the cover for Noemí López Trujillo’s Me dibujaron así: Por qué el mundo odia la feminidad (Península, 2025); and the illustrations for the young adult book Rojo y Oro, written by Iria G. Parente and Selene M. Pascual (Alfaguara, 2017; Penguin Random House, 2025).

As a singer and actress, I understand performing as an invocation and theatre as a ritual. In 2026 I performed with Alana S. Portero in the reading of La habitación de las ahogadas at the Teatro de La Abadía. Some years ago, alongside Alana other akin souls, we founded the theatre company and multidisciplinary collective STRIGA, where I performed, sang my little 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 with Marta Huguet and Lua Quiroga Paúl. 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.