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...maybe the birds will feel the expansion of air, in more intimate flight. (2026)

BELGIAN VISUAL ARTIST

Where inner life takes form.

Figurative drawings in ink and pen, exploring vulnerability, connection and transformation.

Marty draws not only what is visible, but also what moves beneath it. His drawings ask for time, closeness, and a second look. Somewhere between the precision of the line and the fractures in the image, a silence emerges — one in which the viewer may recognise something of themselves.

— Kim VAN PARYS

Artwork as shown at exhibition.

RECENT EXHIBITION

Solo Exhibition
Gallery 22,
Damme

September & October 2026

Selected Works

Attachment to things drops away by itself when you no longer seek to find yourself in them. (2026)
If I stay here, there's a going in my staying; and if I go there is a staying in my going. (2025)
As a drop in the ocean you take part in the current, ebb and flow. (2025)

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Marty Matthys

Marty Matthys is a Belgian visual artist based in Gent. Working primarily with pen and ink, he creates detailed figurative drawings in which bodies, nature and inner experience begin to merge. His work explores vulnerability, intimacy, loss and the quiet resilience beneath them.

Portrait by Amandine Grulois (2023)

For exhibitions, commissions and available work.

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