My name is Martin Veldhuis but I work under my artist’s pseudonym MARVELLI. My work falls under the category of what I call magical realism: a figurative representation of an event that is hardly possible or not possible at all in the real world. And often with an undertone of humor under the motto “art with a smile”. Art doesn’t always have to be so serious or abstruse. Many of my paintings show a snapshot of an event of which it is uncertain how it came about and how it ends. I leave that to the imagination of the observer.
I exclusively paint with oil on panel. Often the image interacts with the panel on which it is painted. The image may even extend beyond the frame, painted in trompe l’oeil. I then achieve this by cutting the panel to the required shape.
