Lindy Martinez Stice (b. 1979, California) is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice moves between fine art and tattoo. A graduate of Westmont College (2000), where she earned a BA in Art, Stice has divided her time between California and the island nations of the South Pacific for the past two decades. Stice earned an MFA in Visual Art at Azusa Pacific University (2026), and is the 2026 recipient of the Roxie Ray Endowment Fund for emerging artists at Studio Channel Islands in Camarillo, CA
About
My work emerges from a life lived between California and the South Pacific, shaped by oceanic ecologies and the experience of inhabiting liminal cultural space. Working across drawing, watercolor, and tattoo, I approach image-making as an embodied practice.
Botanical and marine forms recur as structural frameworks. Oceanic movement, ropes and lines, and reef structures function as metaphors for migration, resilience, and connection. I am drawn to the tension between fragility and permanence, and to the ways images hold memory across geographies. Through layered, highly rendered watercolor and deliberate mark-making, I examine hybridity, authorship, and belonging, creating images that feel intimate yet enduring.