Jon Marten is a painter/graphic artist. After completing his education (1955-1958, St. Joost in Breda and Eyckacademie in Maastricht), he primarily worked on leaded glass assignments until 1960. Later on, he stopped accepting commissions and moved to Amsterdam where he settled. In the 1980s, Jon Marten was part of the ‘IJmuider Kring’, alongside artists such as Jaap Mooij, Theo Kuypers, Gérard van den Eerenbeemt, Pieter Defesche, and Lei Molin. The landscape serves as a major source of inspiration for Jon Marten’s work. His work represents a different world; a different reality. He describes his work as a vigorous attack on unknown forces in nature. ‘I try to let these inner fragments run freely. They guide me towards one of the slides stored within me. That’s how it usually goes.’ Jon Marten spent a lot of time in the Dominican Republic and regularly exhibited in the Caribbean region.
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