Camilla Mathlein

An artist, an interior designer, a professional basketball player, a model and cancer survivor, Heta Katja “Camilla” Mathlein was born April 9, 1963 in Stockholm, Sweden to an architect father and textile designer mother. Although Camilla credits her mother as her greatest artistic influence, she remembers being a young child using the backs of her father’s discarded blueprints for her canvases. After her father left when she was five, Camilla was raised by her mother who sewed all of her clothes and encouraged her as a drawer and painter. In addition to being an artist, Camilla played Division 1 basketball, survived a Hodgkin's lymphoma diagnosis and spent ten years traveling throughout Europe, the US, Australia and Japan working as a model for Elite. In 2000 Camilla enrolled at Parsons School Of Design for interior design. It was there that she honed her drawing skills, developing a symbiosis between her understanding of architecture and her creative design abilities. She later moved to the Hudson Valley where she currently resides and continues her work as an artist and interior designer. Camilla’s approach is to design spaces that are architecturally practical as well as harmonious and invite a sense of flow. She loves the opportunity for creative freedom that her purely artistic drawings provide. There are no rules. She simply follows her fancy. Her current work titled, “All My Little Helpers” done in pencil and watercolor, takes a look at the world today and our preoccupation with appearances.