
Hi I am Marty, a contemporary figurative painter. Depicting feelings and emotions and through the subconscious my view of the world.
My art is me visualising my mental health issues, the dark parts. I named them and took control of them. I was visualising these emotions and feelings controlling my brain and putting them to paper or canvas. People began to connect with them, people who had been through or were going through similar issues. A child once pointed at a painting of mine and said to his mum that's how I feel when I get bullied. This caused a spark in my brain. It was purpose, it was also an ability to help people. I could do what I love doing which is great for my own wellbeing and potentially help other people and start conversations.
I began to play with colour in my work to help portray feeling, this knocked on to creating paintings with hope, paintings that represented transformation. That is where I am now. My art represents feeling, emotion and enables people to start talking or to explain how they feel. Some creates hope, just looking at a painting daily can give strength to keep going, to change things up. However, we can't be happy all the time, there is a dark undertone. We live in an age where everyone is sharing their lives publicly but its not true, its a glamourised version of their lives and we try to emulate and be lie that. My art hopefully makes you feel like you don't need to be like that, its ok to feel down and that most people probably feel just like you.
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2024
Solo show Gallery Thirteen February.
Solo show "Regeneration" Haslemere June
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2023
Gallery Thirteen Opening Exhibition Group Show November
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2022​
Ashcroft Art Centre, Fareham, Group Show
'Crabby Creatures' D art Centre HedgeEnd, Southampton Solo Show
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2019
Haslemere Art Society, Haslemere MuseumGroup Show
Titchfield Art & Craft Show Group Show
