Zubieta 'Not Only Pretty Flowers' Print Available
Artist: Zubieta
Title: Not Only Pretty Flowers
Medium: Giclee Print
Size: 20 x 20 cm
Edition: UNSURE
Price: £25
Zubieta is the professional alias of Marta Zubieta, a Spanish illustrator, muralist and multidisciplinary artist now based in Bristol, United Kingdom. Born in Alicante and trained in fine art and design, she crafts a self coined style called “tropical goth,” merging retro pop culture with lush, slightly creepy botanicals. Her pictures bloom with pastel gradients, neon slime drips and jungle tendrils that snake around wide eyed female characters, vintage soda cans and broken basketballs, creating a mood that is both playful and unsettling.
Working digitally and with screen print, Zubieta builds each composition like a collage of memory and mood. She samples early 90s cartoons, Memphis design patterns and skateboard graphics, then layers them with fluorescent airbrush fades and pitch black shadows. The result feels like a dream soaked VHS tape rewinding in slow motion.
Public walls from Madrid to Mexico City carry her supersized murals, while limited edition prints and apparel drop through her online store and collaborations with brands such as Counter Culture drinks and Threadless. Each project, whether a label or a four storey facade, pulses with her distinct palette of candy pink, toxic green and bruised violet, inviting viewers to lose themselves in a world where nostalgia grows teeth and beauty drips with goo.
By celebrating the strange and the sugary, Zubieta continues to push Latin flavored surrealism into global pop consciousness, proving that creepiness can coexist with charm and that every wall is an invitation to step inside her technicolor daydream.
