The artist

The passion to touch hearts and minds through art.

For as long as he can remember, Ghis Martel has always been drawn to art and music. Having grown up in a family of musicians and always fascinated by art and drawing, it didn't take him long to realize he would pursue a career in the arts.

His early drawings showed a clear talent for proportion and color combinations from a young age. Alongside his studies in contemporary music and art, he explored abstract painting and drawing. Although primarily self-taught in abstract art, his studies of the great masters of contemporary art, such as Kandinsky, Klee, Miró, and Pollock, as well as figurative or surrealist painters of the modern era (Monet, Turner, Van Gogh, Dalí, Picasso, and Braque) plus many actual painters, shaped his tastes and preferences.

According to an external analysis, his influences—Kandinsky for composition, Klee for geometric lyricism, Miró for fantasy and gesture, as well as Abstract Expressionism and Lyrical Abstraction for energy and color—are revealed in his works, characterized by a vibrant palette, marked gestural quality, and a search for balance between precise graphic elements and a more diffuse and emotional background. Variations on these themes can be seen, perhaps with different color palettes or diverse geometric compositions, but always with this energy and sense of movement.

“Art is not only a form of expression, but also a way of being. Practicing art is a kind of contemplation of the present moment that allows you to reconnect with yourself and recharge. It is about creating one's own parallel universe, in a way, where one tries to touch the outside world in accordance with one's inner vibration.”

— G. Martel