Martin Sklar was raised on the U.S. east coast. At the age of 18 he left Philadelphia to live in North Carolina then New Orleans then settled in Chicago for nearly ten years. He came to San Diego in 1999 to form his own company and build a career as an artist.

Martin has been an electro-mechanical engineer since 1994 but because of his love for painting and creating, as well as encouragement from a growing fan base, he now focuses primarily on developing a greater body of art work. Martin has been painting most of his life, but in the last 6 years He’s been a full time artist. He shows regularly in San Diego County and lives off of commissions and sales of paintings and prints.

Martin characterizes his style as abstract surrealism, blending abstract forms and color with surreal representation to reveal concepts and ideas. Among his many influences Salvador Dali and Pablo Picasso are the strongest. He developed a technique using ungessoed canvas applying ink and acrylic to create a unique rustic feel combined with pop art style. The majority of his work is ink and ink/acrylic mix on ungessoed canvas however he also paints in oils on traditional gessoed canvas. There is a soft flow to his compositions filled with interconnecting images that to him represents the unbreakable connection between all things in the universe.