Mattea Studio
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About
MATTEA is Cayla Mattea Zeek, an artist from South Louisiana. Her artistic process began very young with drawing and reading children's books. Presently, she has taken her love for words and illustration to create detailed designs for greeting cards. Her work is often characterized by bright watercolor elements combined with ink drawing on paper. While she tends to gather inspirations from her many travels, South Louisiana is a big part of her heart and mind in the creative process.
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Lafayette, LA
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Cayla Mattea Zeek
Cayla Mattea Zeek is an artist from Lafayette, LA and graduated at University of Louisiana with the Visual Arts Department Outstanding Student Award. Her artwork is characterized by mixed media layering process with watercolor, pen, charcoal, acrylic and oil on canvas. She gathers inspirations from her many travels as well as her experiences growing up as a young woman in Louisiana.
In 2015, she started her own hand-illustrated stationery business after her middle name: Mattea’s Hand. During this time, Zeek began a position as a Middle School Visual Arts teacher at Ascension Episcopal School as well as being very involved in the community as a freelance designer/illustrator. In 2017, she became the youngest visual artist chosen to create an original artwork for Festival International. She left teaching the summer of 2017 to pursue art full-time, opening up a shop and gallery in Downtown Lafayette Louisiana. Zeek has curated many events in the community showcasing artists, makers, and musicians. In her spare time, she enjoys playing music, acting in local plays, Louisiana culture, and most of all artistic self-expression through painting.
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