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About Artella!

Hello! I'm Marney Makridakis, Founder of Artella. I'm so happy that you are taking a stroll through the brand new Artella Land! Our mission with these creative Isles is to create a playland for your creativity, full of unique services that embrace the creative uniqueness of individuals, catalyzing unawakened creative inklings and inspirations to come alive and passionately thrive.

Artella was founded in October 2002. It began as a "zine" (independent magazine) that published the unique collaborations among writers and artists. Thanks to the most fabulous team in the world, four and a half years later, Artella has grown into a playland and paradise for writers, artists, and creative spirits!

I wrote and illustrated my first full-length story, “Lov is Flafey and Spots” when I was five years old. I continued to write through-out my life but I didn’t really do any art again until I was in my mid-twenties, when I learned that art and crafts were excellent conduits for emotional healing. I was naturally attracted to paper arts and simple watercolor paintings, and once I began combining words and art together as an art form, I was in heaven. I found the process of making words visual, and making art narrative, to be a very liberating and dynamic form of artistic expression. What excited me even more was creating an opportunity for collaborations within a creative community. More and more, I am learning how much we long for community, how much it fuels us as we dance with the earth's tilt and embrace all that is possible in art and life.

Thus, in the Fall of 2002, I had the dot of an idea to start Artella (named for "art" and "telling"), in an effort to ignite a communal spirit among artists, writers, and creative individuals.

I try to engage in some kind of art-making almost every day, and I love trying new media, techniques, and styles (”jack of all trades, master of FUN!”) However, combining words and art is always my first love! I also love collaborating with friends, partners, and groups to create art, and keep myself inspired by participating in lots of ongoing swaps, round robins, and other projects.

I recently moved to the Big Island of Hawaii, where I live with my husband Tony, who has become my partner in work as well as life, as he now helps run Artella. In just a few months, the Island has inspired an entirely new kind of art to splash from my imagination, as it is just impossible not to see new colors and feel new rhythms of life here. I am grateful for this experience and look forward to bringing more of Hawaii’s beautiful energy into Artella.


At Right: BrainDance, 2007. This is pretty much how my mind works.

Things essential to my art: the color orange, poetic novels, singing loudly, daily naps, the love of a good man, and hero worship of Mary Poppins. And I recently got hooked on the the DVDs of the series ALIAS and Sydney Bristow has became my inspiration as the fearless, resourceful, never- give-up archetype.

And if you are reading this, please know how I grateful I am to you, for being part of Artella’s circle!

Click here to send me an eMail with any questions or comments you might have.

You can also ask me a question to be included in my regular "Ask the Editor" column in e-Artella issues. Click here to ask your question! On that page, you can also "Ask the Muses", which is a column answered by my friend Jill Badonsky.