The Figure Painting

Marco Santos is a self-taught figurative artist based in Portugal, born in 1981. His passion for drawing and pop culture began early, sketching his surroundings, family, and favorite fictional characters from movies, TV, and comics. This love for visual arts propelled him into a career in painting. Marco's work draws inspiration from everyday life, pop culture, and art history. He admires the great masters and incorporates their influence into his unique style. His recent paintings fuse reality and fiction, creating alternate realities and symbiotic relationships. By blending characters from various universes and juxtaposing them in classical art contexts, Marco creates surprising new worlds on his canvases. Marco's artworks have been showcased in galleries across Spain, Portugal, the UK, and the US. He was recently featured in Beautiful Bizarre Magazine's artist directory. His pieces invite viewers to recognize familiar characters in unexpected environments, bringing the multiverse into figurative art.