Marta Skulme was born on 13 May 1890, in Mālpils Municipality in a family of a farmer.
She worked mainly in small forms of sculpture, although she possessed an excellent gift as a monumentalist (in 1924 she shared the 1st prize with Kārlis Zāle in the competition for the Freedom Monument).
[2] The plastic art of Marta Skulme developed to artistic generalization.
Her images possess elements of spiritual balance and inner nobility.
Skulme worked with different materials (granite, bronze, wood), but the majority of her sculptures were performed in plaster castings.