🎨 Visual Art

Honoring my artistic lineage, "Paisley Marten" is the studio name under which I create original painting and photography. My work is shaped by painterly process, close observation, and emotional restraint, with a consistent focus on texture, movement, and tonal balance. Rather than narrating meaning, the work allows atmosphere, symbolism, and human presence to coexist quietly, leaving interpretation open and unforced. My practice is best described as Restrained Symbolist Surrealism with Embodied Identity. My influences span symbolic, atmospheric, and tonal traditions, including Frida Kahlo, Evelyn De Morgan, Leonora Carrington, Remedios Varo, Odilon Redon, Richard Diebenkorn, Vilhelm Hammershøi, Fernand Khnopff, Claude Monet, and James McNeill Whistler. I am drawn to the use of constructed surface and composite texture, inspired by Giuseppe Arcimboldo’s method rather than figurative novelty, and to landscapes and architectural spaces that function as emotional containers rather than literal scenes. Across styles and subjects, my work favors quiet gravity over spectacle, suggestion over explanation, and psychological presence over explicit narrative. 

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• Explore my FAA gallery

• Explore my Pixels gallery

• View my Etsy store

• View my RedBubble store

• View my Spoonflower store

• See a partial gallery exhibit list

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🎹 Music​​