Martyn Cross

Martyn Cross is a UK-based painter whose work reflects a timelessness, making them hard to place in linear narratives of history. Inspired by medieval imagery, various literary genres and printed books, his paintings blend landscapes and figures with uncanny, otherworldly elements.

Using muted and vivid colours and layered dry-brushed pigment, Cross creates weathered textures reminiscent of medieval manuscripts and frescoes. His works range from small, intimate pieces to larger compositions of human forms morphing into landscapes where recurring motifs such as clouds, waterfalls, suns and pointing fingers populate his dreamlike worlds.