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About Mattina Blue

Mattina Blue's interest is in using the special qualities inherent to watercolor (bleeding, merging, layering) to reflect the private experiences of an inner world, as well as the common struggles/successes in coexisting and maintaining relationships.

A graduate of The Fashion Institute of Technology and Hampshire College, ​​her work has been exhibited, published, and commissioned for more than 25 years. Mattina teaches creative watercolor painting in workshops around the world and out at sea. She lives and works in a reconstructed barn on the coast of Maine. You can find more of her work at mattinablue.com.

Traveling Home: watercolors by Mattina Blue

Mattina Blue

watercolor (detail)- Mattina Blue

"Traveling Home" is a series of floating, totem-like forms, which emerged in the process of painting as if excavated from deep in my subconscious. They're moving with the waves, currents and … [Read more...]

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Established in 2000 and edited by Denise Enck, Empty Mirror is an online literary magazine that publishes new work each Friday.

Each week EM features several poems each by one or two poets; reviews; critical essays; visual art; and personal essays.

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