Marti Higgins
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Statement

Artist Statement – 2025

The personal yet universal languages of color, repetition and shape are my inspiration to create.  By carefully coordinating these languages I hope to provoke emotions that may have no definition. I strive to find balance and comfort in the chaos and believe my art touches on the human need for visual excitement balanced with stable and grounding rhythms. My landscapes mirror the mercurial entanglement of the changing seasons while my abstractions are energetic playful designs,

My techniques include experimenting with the relativity of color and shape and how they influence each other by proximity. I expose color relationships in a layer and reveal method providing peeks in glimmers and slices. Layering these elements shape relationships and solidify the composition. I find my way through my process with improvisation rather than visualizing a finished product. I am always inspired by the sense of disorder.

Representation

Hayley Gallery -https://www.localohioart.com

Rela - https://www.rela.art

https://www.rela.art

Beauty is truth, truth beauty, that is all / Ye know on earth,and all ye need to know..

John Keats - “Ode on a Grecian Urn”

Spring Valley

Before The Fall

You Can Glimpse It, Abstract work by Marti Higgins

You Can Glimpse It


GALLERY REPRESENTATION
Bonfoey Gallery http://www.Bonfoey.com

Hayley Gallery - https://www.localohioart.com/

Rela Art Solutions - https://www.rela.art/gallery/artist/marti-higgins Recent 2025 two large format 60x84” Commisions for for Nationwide Hotel and Conference Center in Lewis Center, OH

TESTIMONIALS

PK -”Your prints are absolutely stunning”.

Leslie A-“You are bold and you love color”. - “Your paintings are joyful”

Robert W “-Love your texture buildups and you are a master at involving buff/beige in colors”.

Stephen C -“Your work has a lot of verve.”

Michael G -“Marti Higgins’ mixed media on canvas works make linear order out of chaos. Amendation, her largest work in From WOMAN 18, is a collage of text fragments, found paper, and painted swaths of color. Here, Higgins is expert in color theory, and she underscores the horizontal picture plane, creating a sense of energy from left to right, right to left”.

Hayley D -Painter and mixed media artist Marti Higgins continues to create work which blurs the line between abstract and representational art. Through collage, she builds abstract forms in a way which feels organic. Inversely, she uses paint to represent organic subjects with loose forms and colors, allowing our imagination to fill in the rest.

 

ARTIST STATEMENT

The personal yet universal languages of color, repetition and shape are my inspiration to create.  By carefully coordinating these languages I hope to provoke emotions that may have no definition. I strive to find balance and comfort in the chaos of abstraction and the complication of nature. I want my art to touch on the human need for visual excitement balanced with stable and grounding rhythms. My landscapes mirror the mercurial entanglement of the changing seasons while my abstractions are energetic playful designs,

My techniques include experimenting with the relativity of color and shape and how they influence each other by proximity. I expose color relationships in a layer and reveal method providing peeks in glimmers and slices. Layering these elements shape relationships and solidify the composition. I find my way through my process with improvisation rather than visualizing a finished product. I am always inspired by the sense of order discovered in the disorder.

“Foretold” - When the trees are so abundant with green leaves and then the Autumn begins its show. It “fortells” the poignancy of the next season.

Never Alone - Collage and paint on canvas

“Never Alone” -Paper and Acrylic on Canvas - Finding a way to expose pattern and order and in an abstract work.

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