Mixed Media on Old Bookcover, 2023, 29 x 37 CM

Mart Visser Mixed Media on Book Cover: Three Nocturnal Portraits with Tension and Connection
This striking mixed media artwork by Mart Visser, painted on the cover of an old book, features three expressive portraits rendered in deep midnight blue. The choice of a vintage book as a canvas adds rich texture, historical depth, and a sense of narrative. Each face is captured with raw, layered brushstrokes, visually distinct, yet subtly intertwined. There is a clear emotional tension between the three figures: a quiet question about their connection. Are they family, fragmented identities of one self, or silent witnesses to an untold story? Their relationship remains undefined, making the piece all the more compelling. The midnight blue creates a contemplative, almost dreamlike atmosphere, while the white passe-partout surrounding the work offers clarity and contrast. This clean framing highlights the intensity of the composition and lends it a refined, almost archival quality. Visser masterfully balances opposites, old and new, rough and refined, unity and distance. The weathered book surface becomes an emotional landscape from which these faces emerge, as if drawn from memory or time itself.

Mart Visser Artwork: A Portrait of Three, Rich in Story and Emotion
Part of the Mart Visser Artwork collection, this piece exemplifies Visser’s ability to fuse form, material, and feeling. The three faces, cloaked in blue, each carry their own presence, yet together they evoke questions about human connection, unspoken relationships, and inner tension. There is distance, but also an invisible thread. This small but powerful artwork is ideal for collectors who appreciate art that invites reflection and evokes emotion. A timeless and layered piece that asks us not only to look, but to wonder what lives in the space between people, even in silence.