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They called me Marcela, in Hebrew Malka, I was born in Buenos Aires, Federal Capital and I started this beautiful path of art when I was little...at the age of 8 thanks to a teacher who told my mother that I had a talent for drawing and painting, I got to know Luisa Reisner's free expression workshop and I went there for many years until I was a teenager, and until Luisa told me: you have to follow Bella Artes...
There was always someone who marked the way for me, there are many stories that I could tell; The good thing is that they always marked the best for me...
So I studied at the Prilidiano Pueyrredón School of Fine Arts, specializing in painting and then engraving…
Since that time I began to participate in group exhibitions and then individual, also in some salons.
Then I got married, I came to live in the western zone, I had my children and I stopped painting… I changed my love and passion for painting, for that of my children…
I continued teaching, but I was seventeen years without painting, I was widowed very young with three little ones and I had other priorities... until in 2000 I organized a study trip to Europe with the workshop and there the need to express myself and overturn everything that I had lived through the painting, the colors and the spatulas that I had brought from the trip...
All my painting is done with a palette knife, from that moment I left the brushes and found in them and in the textured and coarse-grained fabrics the way I liked to paint…
My images were always expressed through the human figure, but in the year 2001 I met the white towns of southern Spain and fell in love with them…I painted them, then the North of our country, Argentina, Mexico, Italy and all the small towns that I was able to visit and they left something strong in me…
I have been teaching in my workshop for more than forty years, I have participated in several salons, individual and collective exhibitions, I have obtained some prizes and my work is in national and foreign private collections...
I love to express myself through the image and especially color: its nuances, contrasts, saturation... I like the challenge of seeing how every time I place a color on a plane, everything changes...
The pandemic made me rethink many things, including wanting to return to the capital, the place where I was born, to return, how I did it with painting... someone once told me... you always return to first love...