L7Matrix

Luis G. Martins aka L7matrix was only 13 years old when he first encountered spray paint. This experience has opened the door for many future experiments that the artist L7matrix was about to perform. While exploring blends for his work, Luis tried many techniques and eventually created his unique approach using china ink, lacquer, soft pastel, oil pastel and acrylic.

Color simplicity and free geometry

It's not the only technique L7matrix experimented with. Through experimentation, he formed his unique style – he combines geometric elements and highly stylized color puzzles with realism achieved by elaborate details. It is this combination of color simplicity and free geometry that arouses certain contradictions and even unpleasant feelings in the viewers.

And it was inevitable, due to the fact that this artist is equally inspired by the beauty of life and its sorrow. Influenced by the disorder of his surroundings, he cannot help but create the sophisticated chaos in masterfully mixed roughness and elegance to his subjects.

"Everything generates the chaos, from the mix of sight and emotion to the materials and media used."

His paintings are full of movement as exemplified by the theme of birds, the most famous theme in his works. In addition to specters and faces that resemble colored liquor to luminescent jellyfish. L7Matrix specializes in a unique and striking style that has spread to different places in the world such as France, where he currently resides, Switzerland, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Portugal, Spain, USA, Canada, Australia, among others. His work comes down to everything he likes and feels, always moving and screaming and exploding into beauty and chaos.

The winning combination of realism and abstraction, brought closer together in Luis' artwork, creates a melting pot of emotions, materials and media for the viewer's eyes to enjoy. L7matrix's artistic skills are filled with all familiar human emotions and the city's jumble, mixing roughness with elegance, to convey the concept of empathy for the environment. Luis rarely listens to music while working, instead he likes to blend into the atmosphere, listening to every sound it makes.