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hallo, it’s me, maria!
✎ the artist formerly known as a prop master
✷ amsterdam-based cat-loving girlie
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dance, little case, dance 🌈✨

my @casetify collection is ready to dance with ya (and your cats, hehe)! 🧡

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#catillustration #animalillustration #digitalillustration #illo #womenwhodraw #illustragram #procreateart #phonecases #casetify #amsel by @studioamsel

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4 years ago

say hello to mr. Senny! 🌼🍃

ever since my chonky love became one with the cosmos back in november 2022, creating things (and just existing as a sorta functional human) has been, to put it very very mildly, hard...

add to that (brace yourselves, it's gonna be an emoji list, haha):

📦 planning, while deep in the throes of grieving, and then eventually completing a long-awaited transatlantic move with the cat fam and seven incredibly heavy bags full of books, trinkets and memories (and a small piece of furniture that a dear friend gifted me years ago and I couldn't leave behind)
❤️‍🩹 saying goodbye (but talk to you soon and please come visit!) to the extraordinary group of friends who became my incredibly loving family and a true home to me
🎬 leaving behind my career in film, a decade-long art department adventure that devoured my life and allowed me to grow as an artist and a human, dream bigger than I could've possibly imagined and find some of the most amazing people ever to exist
📓 and then jumping head first into academia, a place I've always love dearly but hadn't been back to since film school in my early twenties (for reference, I'm now happily in my thirties)

...and you get a perfect storm of depression, anxiety and exhaustion, a complete loss of purpose and a profound longing for my parents, who left this earth far too soon and can no longer hold me through it all; at the same time, there's a whole lot of excitement, the sense of having accomplished what I had set out to do (and more!), and this wonderful feeling of finally being home in many ways 🌸

all that to say that without my Senny and our ten years of big-spoon-chubby-spoon love, none of this would exist. and I truly mean that, cause my boy saved my life more times than I can count, and then fought hard to stay here as some of my big dreams were starting to come true... so it’s only fair that he becomes the face of my art journey from now on, and what a cute face that is 💘

thank you all for your kindness throughout these past couple years, and for sharing your cat stories and making this place so very special to me. I can't wait to show you everything I've been cooking up around here ✨ by @studioamsel

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3 years ago

to everyone she's ever loved (including you!) 💌✨

if you've ever met my girl or heard me talk about her, you know it takes less than a minute for her to warm up to strangers and start purring super loudly 😭💖

she ✨loves to love✨ and I think a lot of it comes from the endless amount of care she's been given since the day we saw her at a park and instantly fell in love 🌸

when we talk about love, we also talk about a cycle of care, and our ability to love others and ourselves comes from deep within this cycle, from feeling safe as part of a community that is always there for us and making sure they know we're always there for them 💞

all this to say that we don't exist alone and we don't love in a vacuum. much like my girl, my broken heart began to heal and expand when I found myself surrounded by other extraordinary beings (most of them women and kitties, hihi 🤭), and the bigger it grew, the more I learned about myself and the better I was able to love them all ❤️‍🩹

and on that note, here's a huuuuge thank you to my friends, old and new, who were happy to send me pics of their beautiful kitties for this silly project! it took me longer than expected to shoot, then reshoot, then edit it, but I'm just in love with how it turned out and I hope y'all enjoy seeing your babies here too 🥹💝
(ps.: there's also a little surprise for @furrylittlepeach, cause this was initially meant to come out during #peachtober24 & her boy Tonka reminds me so much of my Senny I just can't 😭) by @studioamsel

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2 years ago

💌✨ a few snippets from the big day ⛺️💫

it's been almost an entire month since our cutie inner child vol. 2 opening party at @helloitspansy and I'm so happy I get to look back at these clips and do a little bit of time-traveling (thank you @loes.klinker for capturing my fever dream so beautifully) 🥹🌈

I just had the absolute best time, and it still makes me smile every time people come in and talk about how the pieces bring back so many memories, and I get to cheekily say "oh, that's actually my exhibition, hihi, let's yap" 🤭🥰

and since we're all about making cheeky childhood joy last forever, we've decided to extend the show until the end of september, for those of you who've yet to gaze into clippy's big fluffy eyes 👁️👁️

ps.: to everyone who has reserved/purchased something, don't you worry cause we'll get in touch via email on the week of the 14th to arrange pick up/deliver! we'll be reshuffling the wall a bit, but I promise it'll still look as cute as I can make it 💘 taken in Amsterdam, Netherlands by @studioamsel

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a month ago

⛺️✨ opening day was a dream!!! 🎈🎂

inner child vol. 2 opened yesterday at @helloitspansy and my heart couldn't be fuller 🥹💘

what a dream it was to celebrate childhood joy surrounded by the most wonderful people! thank you all so much for coming and sharing your memories, it was so so sweet having you there and hearing your stories after working so hard on each and every single one of these pieces 💫

can't wait to share more photos and camcorder footage (we had so many cameras!) and talk about the process of bringing it all together ✨✨✨

and for those of you who couldn't make it, the exhibition runs until the first week of september, so come by sometime and say a little hi to your inner child, hihi ☀️🧸 taken in Amsterdam by @studioamsel

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2 months ago

⛺️✨ come say hi to my inner child 🌈💌

it’s been a year since opening night of ⛺️inner child (vol. 1)⛺️ at @helloitspansy, and like all the silly mixtapes I used to make, I knew it needed (at least) a vol. 2 💫

as an artsy kid, the 90s and early 2000s were an extraordinary mix of dreaming up and experimenting with what my life would become, looking and touching and feeling and making as a way to bring into reality the sparkly magic I saw in the world 💖

throughout adulthood (and especially now in my 30s), that magic has kept me afloat, and I’ve carried it with me in a tiny little bottle, making sure it stayed close when life proved to be a bigger challenge than swimming in the ocean after watching Jaws with my dad at age five… I always felt the need to stay soft and curious despite all the sharp-toothed creatures out there, and care for the child I once was for all the imagination and joy she’s given me 🌟🖍️

like last year, this exhibition is just an excuse to celebrate our inner children with cake, good music and extremely yummy artworks (some are small and shiny, some are big and fuzzy, you gotta be there to see!), and reminisce about our memories and how they shaped us into the wild and wonderful beings we’ve become ✌🏻💕

🥳 opening day party with cake (of course!) and delicious treats
📆 sunday 9 august 2026
⏰ 16:00 - 18:00
📍pansy | czaar peterstraat 68, amsterdam
🪩 90s playlist guaranteed so we can all feel nostalgic together taken in Amsterdam, Netherlands by @studioamsel

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3 months ago

everyone, meet midsize clippy! 🥹📎✨

after big clippy (introduced last year during my exhibition at @helloitspansy) and tiny clippy (specially made in teeny form for tiny festival), I had the honor of making these two hilarious midsize creatures for the one and only @kay.everything 💖

I've had these photos in a folder for months and only yesterday came across them while working on my next clippy iteration (y'all are not ready!!!!), and couldn't stop laughing at how chonky they are 😂

at this point, I feel like this truly is clippy's world and we're all just living in it 👁️👁️💬 taken in Amsterdam, Netherlands by @studioamsel

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3 months ago

x @studioamsel

💌🐱 cutie news 🐶🎨

after a year of running the most adorable kitty workshops ever, we're coming together to turn an already wholesome experience into something you can enjoy at home right next to your furry friends 🥹💘

each pack includes:
🐱 one handmade and ready-to-glaze ceramic furry friend (and you get to choose your fave kitty/doggo shape!)
🐶 one extra ready-to-glaze ceramic charm that you can use as a keychain, bag charm or tiny wall hanging
🐱 four cutie mini pots of our special selection of fur-colored glazes
🐶 four brushes (including a thin one for little details) and a pencil
🐱 and illustrated how-to booklet for painting your ceramics
🐶 a tips & tricks guide with some extra handy info on painting your furry friend
🐱 handling and firing service from pansy

🛍️ order online through the pansy website or in-store
✏️ €49 taken in Amsterdam, Netherlands by @studioamsel

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3 months ago

📣💞 update: the workshop has been rescheduled to august 9th!! 💞📣

introducing: the furry friend workshop 🐱💘🐶

as a cat person who grew up with all kinds of furry friends (🐰🐶🐱🐹🐐🦇 and so on), I knew there would come a time for inclusivity in the kitty workshops, and it finally starts now! 💖💫

for all the dog people who've asked me "why no dogs?" and got the standard answer "there are just too many kinds 🥲", here's my humble attempt at making three sorta general dog shapes, which are also part of a bigger project @helloitspansy and I have been cooking up! I hope y'all like them as much as I do, hihi 🐕🐾🐩

so come celebrate Ginger's ✨actual✨ birthday by painting your own bestie, kitty or doggo, with us! it'll be cozy, it'll be fun and in the end you'll have an adorable piece of art inspired by your baby, which is just beyond cute if you ask me 🥹💕

📆 sunday 9 august 2026
⏰ 11:00 - 12:30
📍pansy | czaar peterstraat 68, amsterdam
🖍 beginner & kid-friendly!
🎟️ book your spot through the pansy website (link in bio)! taken in Amsterdam, Netherlands by @studioamsel

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5 months ago

come paint a kitty with us 🐱🌸🎨

there were soooo many cutie pics from our last workshop at @helloitspansy I kinda had to do a pt. 2 to share them all, hihi (swipe for the funniest grumpiest kitty ever, hahah) 💖

I'm so excited for our first springtime session of the year!! I've already started making a bunch of flower charms for y'all to paint tiny cat faces on (it's like a little side quest and last time it was so much fun!!) 🌷🥹🌼

📆 saturday 18 april 2026
⏰ 17:30 - 19:00
📍pansy | czaar peterstraat 68, amsterdam
🖍 beginner & kid-friendly!
🎟️ book your spot through the pansy website (link in bio)! taken in Amsterdam, Netherlands by @studioamsel

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6 months ago

all the kitties, so many kitties 🐱💘✨

last month, we had the sweetest group of people come together at @helloitspansy to paint their precious bbs and share their cat pictures (which is pretty much my definition of bonding), and it was the exact kind of cutie & fun time my little heart needed, hihi ❤️‍🩹

so of course we immediately decided to add a new date, and of course we'll have more charms/keychains for everyone to paint tiny versions of their furry bffs on (keep swiping for a peek!), and of course I'm already in spring mode, so some of them are gonna be flower-shaped too 🌸

can't wait to see you (and your entire folder of kitty photos) there!! 🥹🩵🐱

📆 saturday 18 april 2026
⏰ 17:30 - 19:00
📍pansy | czaar peterstraat 68, amsterdam
🖍 beginner & kid-friendly!
🎟️ book your spot through the pansy website (link in bio)! taken in Amsterdam, Netherlands by @studioamsel

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7 months ago

another year, another kitty workshop 🐱✨🎨

@helloitspansy and I are back at it again, and after running a bunch of these last year I can fully attest that there's no better way to spend time than looking at cat pics and painting cute versions of them (it's kitty science, y'all can't disagree!!!) 🐈💫🐈‍⬛

the idea is still the same: you bring lots of photos of your feline bbs + a pinch of creativity, I'll bring lots of handmade ceramic cats for you to choose from (including hanging ornaments and big kitty coasters) and we'll cozy up with warm drinks and glaze away in the cutest spot in town 🥹🌸

📆 sunday 22 february 2026
⏰ 17:30 - 19:00
📍pansy | czaar peterstraat 68, amsterdam
🖍 beginner & kid-friendly!
🎟️ book your spot through the pansy website (link in bio)! taken in Amsterdam, Netherlands by @studioamsel

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8 months ago