Marta Monteiro is an illustrator living and working in the beautiful Portuguese town of Penafiel. A self taught artist, Marta boasts international clients, distinctive style and numerous awards. Her color-splashed, seemingly kinetic depictions of characters in every day life and dream world situations, couldn’t help but catch our eye! We wanted to catch up with her to find out more about the girl behind the colour palette…   1. What do you want people to feel or think of when they look at your work?   I’ve never asked myself about it, but if I could wish for some kind of reaction I would like them to be inspired. That’s what I look for in other people artwork, whether it is a short story, a film or a drawing.   2. Your colour palettes are so vibrant and distinctive – from where do you draw colour inspiration?  The use of colours is inspired by screen printing. I use a digital process that replicates screen printing color overlaying, where different layers of colour are printed separately on the top of one another. For me it works better with two complementary or with primary colours.       3. What’s the first thing you do when you wake up in the morning?  If it’s not to cold I like […]