ABOUT THE WORK

Martin Honasan’s full-blown hyperrealist portraits have overlapping abstract strokes and torn canvases. He also prefers creating portraits as a way of exploring the expressive qualities of the human face. Also, through the layers at work in his paintings, he presents psychological concepts and complexities faced by the human condition. This featured portrait is out of his expressionist exercise, specifically of reconstructing canvases, handling texture and folds, and rendering the face. Exposed to art from a very young age, Honasan was then working towards becoming a successful comic book illustrator. After graduating with a degree majoring in psychology and communications, he worked in the advertising field and had a graphic design business. But then he returned to painting, his first love and calling, exhibiting his well-received pieces in various shows