JUAN CARLOS MARTINEZ

Juan Carlos Martínez is a painter, portraitist, and art educator living in Toronto, Canada. Juan has been a multiple award winner in a number of international competitions, including the Portrait Society of America and the Art Renewal Center Salon, as well as being featured in American Artist Magazine, International Artist Magazine, and Fine Art Connoisseur Magazine. He has been a senior instructor and lecturer at the Academy of Realist Art in Toronto for a number of years. His deepest artistic interest has always been in the human figure and its potential to represent aspects of culture and individual persona, as well as emotion or fact, and a desire to tie it all together with universal symbology. In the past few years Juan has devoted more of his time to studying Ancient Mysteries, Symbolism, and "Sacred Geometry". His serendipitous work is ever more reflecting those interests and how they can be represented and incorporated into his artistic aspirations. Primarily, Juan uses the human figure to exemplify or animate ideas -- however grand or small -- just as humanity has done since the beginning of time in all of the religions and belief systems it has devised.

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Earthshine Op. XL. Black and white chalk, carbon, on blue-toned prepared paper; 61 x 46 cm (24″ x 18″).

Steam (a.k.a., Vapor). Oil on gessoed panel; 61 x 46 cm (24″ x 18″).

Woman from Sparta. Carbon pencil, white chalk, sanguine chalk, and sepia ink on prepared paper; 41 x 58 cm (16″ x 23″).

Nuut. Mixed technique on prepared paper; 33 x 25 cm (13″ x 10″).