Martí Roca Balcells (1994, Barcelona)

Graduating as a graphic designer from BAU University, Martí combines that profession with being a painter. The two activities complement each other: design as a conceptual approach and painting as a freer, more intuitive process. He is currently working at the design studio La Casa de Carlota, where professionals, students, and artists with Down syndrome and autism collaborate in the creative process.

Martí’s work fuses faces, bodies, plants, and organic forms, exploring the human figure through the use of stains and brushstrokes. Raw and flat, his work creates a dialogue between the wild and the rational, a naïve and expressionist play that breaks away from aesthetic conventionalism.

Permanent artist in Artevistas Gallery