About

"What the soul does for the body is what the artist does for the people."

Gabriela Mistral

Feminist Witch Artist and Flower Tea Maker

 It all started when my grandmother was born, or maybe even before. I belong to a family of natural-born women artists. Growing up in Chile, I mimicked my mother's knitting and sewing as a child. I fell in love with dirty brushes, colors, and pastel pencils in my early teens. I have signed my works as Monailtd since I was 16 years old; embracing art as a process is guided by intuition, submersion, do it you-self ethics, and the only rule is that there are no rules.

I am a self-taught artist and a credentialed Special Education teacher with an emphasis on Moderate to Severe. 
My work is influenced by Feminism, environmental justice,  womanhood, the books I read, radical women, the ancient Goddesses, and the W.I.T.C.H. movement. These influences can be observed throughout my works in the mixed media portraits published in the Cloth Paper Scissors Mix Media Magazine and in the bags collections published in Haute Handbag Magazine: Handmade Purses, Clutches, & Altered Bags Stampington & Company. As well as in the works of mixed media on canvas, Biographical Female Artists offering boxes and all the works exhibited at the Latino Art Museum in Pomona, California, between 2011-16. Additionally, in my quilts such as Memory Quilt: Femicides in Mexico 2017, When God Was A Woman, and Why There Have Been No Great Women Artists quilts. As well as in the embroidery series "killing Us Softly." 

My need for beauty and colors inspired me to set up a pink studio, where I spent my days sewing and creating mix-media art. I live with my husband, three children, two dogs, my polydactyl cat Benjamin Hemmingway Franklin, and my other cat Papillon Napoleon, and neutering my garden, which is my endless source of witchy inspiration.

The Pink Studio