The watercolour prints by Marta Cruz approach the relationship between space and time, expressed through colour and composition. Using them as instruments, the designer works with an interplay of different shapes and layers. Interested in the complexity of colours, she never uses them in a raw way, but individually and intuitively searches the shades for each painting. 

STRATA & HUMUS are a family of two pieces referring to utopian landscapes, created by layering colours. Being figurative but not realistic, they are an echo of landscapes the artist experienced while travelling in nature. Strata focusing on the sky and Humus on the soil, they are complementing yet contrary.

“I never have a previous idea. I start painting and then the painting takes me along.” Marta Cruz

Edition of 50, numbered and signed by the artist. Each image is sold individually and unframed.

Marta Cruz is an architect and an artist based in Porto, Portugal.

Her artistic work explores the time-space binomial through colour and composition, either in watercolour or in drawing. In both cases, paper itself, as a substance and as a matter, is at the core of her practice.

In parallel to her artistic practice, she is an adjunct professor at ESAD Matosinhos teaching in the fields of drawing, domestic space and material culture.

MOR Design is a Portuguese brand dedicated to honest and simple design, creating timeless pieces meant to last for generations. Collaborating with renowned designers like Álvaro Siza, MOR emphasizes Portuguese artisanal tradition, using carefully selected materials to produce unique and durable objects.