ColorUp Malta

Dont miss the Valletta Green Festival! Running this weekend!

Valletta Green Festival | Malta Designer Zack Ritchie | Valletta Green Festival

Marika Camilleri, one of our Color Up Malta artists, is winner of the International Lace Mask Competition 😍

International Lace Mask Competition | News Winner in the hand made lace category

Antje Liemann, one of our Color Up Malta artists, made it into the selection of funded projects 😍 Arts Council Malta

Arts Council Malta | News More than 5000€ project funding for Cospicua visual artist

Our Color Up Malta project is now presented at Spazju Kreattiv in Valletta 😍

A Quarantine Diary | News Spazju Kreattiv - Valletta

Here is another press article about our Color Up Project 😍

Color Up Malta featured | News Malta*s Culture Portal

Marika Camilleri (one of our Color Up Malta artists) has designed a Covid-19 mask. She combined the traditional Maltese lace making and created the "Maltese Bobbin Lace Mask" 😍

International Lace Day | News Inquisitor's Palace Birgu

Congratulation Liam Spiteri! 👏👏👏
Liam's Art

Liam Spiteri one of our Color UP Malta artists | News presents his artwork to the minister of health Chris Fearne

Following the previous press reports from Lovin Malta, Newsbook.com.mt and Television Malta, our Color Up Malta project will also be featured by MaltaToday. The journalist Теоdor Reljic spoke to the project initiator Tom Frank in today's Sunday edition of MaltaToday about the creation and implementation of the Color Up Malta project in which 108 Maltese artists have been involved so far.

MALTATODAY Sunday Edition | News www.cottonera.info

There is one more, just received some minutes ago from Denmark...coloured by Naja 😍

And finally our last one for today is also very special 😍 Antje Liemanns motif was coloured with nail polish and tulip petals. Isnt it beautiful? 😍 We received it from Simona, living in Bergamo/Italy, a city which was hit hardest with the Corona virus!

We would like to draw your attention to the last entries.
Have a look at this coloured Valletta version. We received it from Suchita, living in Oxford (UK). She wrote us this message:

"Dear Team,
This art project means a lot to me because, right now, my mother and I would have been enjoying a holiday in Malta but, sadly, we had to cancel everything due to COVID.

We both work with children, so when I saw the photo of James Vella Clark with a little boy (who I presume is his son?), I thought that the boy must be very proud of his dad, and would be happy if someone downloaded his drawing. I also realised that I had not done any colouring since my own childhood, so I wanted, for a moment, to unleash my ‘inner child’.

This drawing immediately captured my attention because within it I saw: a dog, and a woman wearing a hat that looks like the national flower of Malta. And what could be nicer than dogs or flowers? I am quite obviously not an artist, but I have taken the liberty of trying to suggest these things with my colouring-in. I have lined the clouds with silver, to follow the old English saying, and indeed I hope that these strange and sad times will be tinged with joy for your country.

I will rebook our trip when it is safe, and hope that I might see some of these artists’ works in person. I had so much fun doing this – thank you!"

So the coast line is a dog, we would say with a bit of imagination it could be also a lion 🧐 Valletta has a lion in his coat of arms, in Valletta are lots of lion statues and the lion is also the heraldic emblem of the Grand Master Vilhena who reigned in Malta between 1722 and 1736. Isn't it astonishing how much new information can be produced by just colouring in a work? We are very excited 😍

James Vella Clarks Valletta motif was coloured twice 😍