About

Marta Alexandra Abbott was born in Amsterdam and grew up between Connecticut and Prague. She lived in New York City before settling in Rome, Italy. Marta has studied painting, drawing, art restoration and floral design. From early on, her fascination with the natural world has largely informed her work in both subject matter and process. Working primarily on paper and canvas, her materials include handmade natural inks, earth pigments, and oil paints, as well as other organic and non-traditional materials.

In her exploration of nature, beauty, and the human experience of both, Marta is interested in the rhythms, cycles, transformations, and oft unnoticed details of botanical specimens and of the natural world in general. She takes notice of the stories we tell and orientation we find in the night sky, in the language of light and shadow, and in the role time and place play in transmuting and constructing microcosms and macrocosms. She creates with a focus on process, experimentation and following her curiosity down strange paths with unpredictable outcomes and seeks ways to communicate that which she discovers along the way.