“A Day in the Life” with: Visual Artist Mavarti

July 15, 2026 Emilea Semancik Arts, Visual Arts

Since coming to Canada nearly 20 years ago, Martha (Mavarti) has been continuously developing her passion for art in all forms. Her first passion was her family and raising two beautiful daughters while fostering a creative environment for them. With the additional free time that comes with maturing children, Martha has focused her time to honing her skills and absorbing inspiration from everything around her. Her media is not limited, and her subject matter is vast. She will flow between subtle nature scenes in coloured pencil to large acrylic abstracts that inspire wonderment of the universe.

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During summer, my family and I go camping in Sundree, and while I do that, I try to capture the “best picture” for my new project, which may or may not be acrylic
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Recently, we celebrated my oldest daughter’s graduation, and it was a lot of fun to see her grow and become the young woman she is now
My life is as normal as it comes, Jimmy, my dog, keeps me busy, too. He makes sure I play with him every day, several times at his absolute favourite location which is the stairs, no matter how many times he goes for a walk. The stairs will be the winner
Here I am doing the most unglamorous work of all, being a mom and a housewife, doing laundry
I make sure I have at least two hours a day doing art, as it is important to me to keep up
Even camping, I try my best to incorporate some time for art
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One of my most recent drawings on colour pencil, experimenting with different techniques for textures and background colours
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A work in progress on another take of the same oranges, but this time on another kind of paper

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Which ’hood are you in?

Chestermere AB.

What do you do?

I focus mostly on acrylics mixed with crystals, but my first love is colour pencils, and I also love to draw on occasion in graphite and pastels.

What are you currently working on?

I am currently doing hunt for the “one and only” perfect mixture of texture, color background ratio between colour pencils and paper which is kind of impossible to find as every job is different and each piece needs its own way to “express itself” but for now this is keeping me engaged trying new techniques of doing colour pencils which brings me to new ways to express myself and being up to date with my work.

Where can we find your work?

I am on Instagram and on my website.

 

About Emilea Semancik 339 Articles
Emilea Semancik was born in North Vancouver. Emilea has always always wanted to work as a freelance writer and currently writes for the Vancouver Guardian. Taking influence from journalism culture surrounding the great and late Anthony Bourdain, she is a recipe author working towards publishing her own series of books. You can find her food blog on Instagram:
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