Sitting in the fields, looking over the Dollard to Germany. And then... the silence is there.

Marten paints acrylic on canvas, mixing the colours. He will never use a colour straight from the jar.

The artist found his inspiration in the enormous dimensions of the landscape in the north and the “Waddenzee”, the sea in the north of The Netherlands. His work is an expression of the silence you can experience standing in the middle of nowhere. An overwhelming feeling, which sometimes can be too impressive.
"When you are standing or sailing in the 'nothing', with the horizon 360 degrees around you, then you are connected with nature, the place you are. Then the silence is not in your ears only.”