Marta has been painting as a Botanical artist since the 1990s having graduated with a Bachelor of Arts ( Melbourne University) and a Bachelor of Education (Fine Arts)

Since focusing upon Botanical Art she has exhibited widely across Australia including in the Waterhouse Natural History Prize in South Australia. Her work is in collections in the Melbourne Herbarium and in the Sydney Herbarium and in private collections. Several paintings have also featured in the calendars of the Friends of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne. She has also been awarded the Celia Rosser Medal for paintings in a TABI Exhibition in Melbourne.

Living in the Dandenong Ranges has been inspirational for her artwork and she regularly takes part in the Dandenong Ranges Open Studios programs and her work has been featured in local venues.

She also teaches botanical art classes and workshops.

The painting of the "Fungi of the Dandenong Ranges" is of fungi which grow in the mountain ash forest through which she walks and each of these fungi grows beneath these forest trees. She approaches her painting as an art work which is focused upon sharing her wonder at the intricacy of the structure and colours of the natural world.