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Meet the Artist Carmela Caldart
Brazilian-born and Barcelona-based artist Carmela Caldart creates vibrant images where bodies, intimacy, and identity exist freely and unapologetically. Her work blends bold colors, playful shapes, and fluid characters to explore queerness, empowerment, and everyday connection.
The message is simple and powerful: being yourself is cool.
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Confidence in Every Curve
In Carmela’s universe, sensuality is never about shock value. It’s about presence, confidence, and tenderness. Through illustration, ceramics, and animation, she builds a visual language where bodies transform, move, and take up space with joy.
Raised in Brazil and shaped by years of moving between places and cultures, Carmela brings a layered perspective to everything she creates. The Portuguese word saudade, a feeling somewhere between nostalgia and longing, often finds its way into her work. It’s visible in the quiet intimacy of her characters, the lingering glances, and the warmth that radiates through her compositions.
Working across illustration, animation, and ceramics, Carmela approaches creativity with an intuitive spirit and a love for experimentation. Through her characters, she explores representation and self-worth, showing bodies that move freely, transform into patterns, dance across surfaces, and claim their space with pride.
Illustrating Joy, Intimacy, and Identity
StickerApp: Your work moves across illustration, animation, and ceramics. How has your journey from Brazil to Barcelona shaped your creative path, and how do your Brazilian roots influence your artistic identity today?
Carmela: I grew up moving a lot inside and outside Brazil, and that shaped how I work. I’m curious, adaptable, and always interested in learning new media. The longer I live away from Brazil, the more its themes appear in my work. We have a word in Portuguese, saudade, which translates to "a mix of nostalgia and longing", and I think that feeling shows up a lot in what I create. Being Brazilian, Latina, queer, and a woman all influence my work in different ways.
StickerApp: How do your values and experiences shape the confidence and attitude of your characters?
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Carmela: My characters have evolved with me. As I became more confident and playful in my work, they started taking up more space and exploring different shapes and styles.
They represent what I value in people: joy, confidence, calmness, and pride in who they are. Whatever form they take, dancing, posing, or becoming patterns, they’re always unapologetically themselves.
StickerApp: Color, texture, and movement are central to your illustrations. How do you approach them in your creative process?
Carmela: My process is very intuitive. I start with sketches, exploring composition, scale, and poses. Once the drawing feels right, I bring in color and texture.
Different media change the approach. With digital work, I use textured brushes for a hand-drawn feel. With ceramics, I layer underglaze to keep that painted texture. Learning what works best for each is one of the most exciting parts of my practice.
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StickerApp: You explore themes like queerness and empowerment. How can playful illustration carry intimate or political ideas without being loud, and what do you hope people take away from your work?
Carmela: Art is one of the most powerful ways to communicate ideas. Illustration allows you to approach heavier subjects in a lighter, more accessible way. Through color, movement, and characters, one can talk about identity, representation, and community without being overly direct. I think everything artists create carries something intimate and political.
I hope people feel joy and connection when they see my work, regardless of whether they recognize themselves in a character or simply get transported to a familiar feeling.
That moment of recognition is one of the most powerful things art can create.
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StickerApp: How do you decide what to share publicly and what to keep more private?
Carmela: I used to keep my sketchbooks very private, almost like a diary. Today I share much more. Sometimes ideas stay private until they feel finished, but I often enjoy sharing my process, especially with handmade work like ceramics or painting.
Instagram helps separate things naturally: the grid for more finished work, stories for experiments and process.
StickerApp: Your work joyfully celebrates bodies and intimacy. How do you create sensual or NSFW images that remain empowering and accessible?
Carmela: I like creating work that feels real and relatable while highlighting the beauty of everyday life and relationships. Intimacy isn’t always sexual — but it can be — and I enjoy exploring different forms of intimacy that are part of my life.
It feels natural to draw bodies with different proportions, or bodies that transform into abstract shapes, with colors and textures that aren’t strictly realistic; a mix between the real world and a more playful approach.
StickerApp: What advice would you give to artists who want to explore bold, inclusive, and body-positive visual storytelling?
Carmela: Do it!! My advice would be: explore and experiment. Exploration and representation are important, but the best way to find your voice is by playing and discovering what feels natural to you.
Inclusivity and body positivity are stronger when they feel normal and genuine. Instead of trying to represent everyone in every piece, it’s more meaningful to normalize that across your whole body of work - by representing what you know and experience in your own life.
Thank you so much for chatting with us, Carmela! To see more of Carmela, head on over to her Instagram, @carmelacaldart, or check out her website.
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