Mati Rose

Mati was 18 months old when her father died in a car accident. He was an artist, a woodcarver.

Mati was too little and her mom was too sad to talk about the accident. As Mati got older, she made a lot of art but making art was hard because it reminded her of death. 

So, as Mati grew, she worked on her art and herself. While she made, she also grieved. While she created, she processed. She did all the things an awake person does when trauma hits early and belief systems go awry.

And then when Mati was 29, she went to art school. After that, she gave her life to art because, as Mati says,

“I got to a point where I just couldn’t do anything else. I didn’t think I would be able to survive if I worked in an office. It made me feel depressed and so I chose the risk of financial instability because making art just made me feel more alive. There wasn’t a choice at some point.”

Mati got an agent. Her art started showing up on phone cases and gift cards and sheets. She wrote and illustrated children’s books. She started a blog and built an online following.

Mati worked hard and with time and hustle, Mati built her art career.

But then Mati got divorced and she had to go inward again. Do the hard work of being human. Which only made her stronger and her art career bigger. She stopped working with an agent and started writing, creating, and doing only what she most wanted to write, create, and do.

Today, Mati leads workshops all over the world including Morocco, Mexico, Italy, and Costa Rica. Her books include Daring Adventures in Paint and Painting the Sacred Within. She has over ten online courses including Daring Adventures in Love and Loss and Daring Adventures in Creative Biz. And her original art can be found in private collections around the world. 

Art is no longer about death for Mati. Art is what makes Mati come fully alive. 

“In the early part of my life, there was a lot of death. That really shaped the preciousness of my perspective around life and ultimately, deciding just to do what I love.”