Short biography
Marcel Garbi is a multidisciplinary artist based in London since 2009. The son of a painter, his father served as his first teacher and mentor. Marcel received formal training in several disciplines, including Music Composition at the University for the Creative Arts (UCA), Complex Music under the guidance of Maestro F. Guerrero, Piano, and Drama at the Conservatory. Since 2014, he has focused on painting with ink and watercolour on handmade Japanese paper, a practice he continues to this day. His works are part of private collections in the United States, Australia, Argentina, Spain, Germany, and the United Kingdom.

Artist Statement

I think we are living in an illusion but sometimes we are “touched” from the other side of the veil. The arts -when they achieve it- open some of those magic gates that help us get across the veil offering a glimpse to the other side via some kind of "poetic event".

Creativity is an attitude, a view about things even before those things may belong to any specific discipline.

I do not feel “a painter” at all; I just work with Ink and Watercolours on Japanese hand-made paper to bring some poetry.

It is an exploration across Drawing -without a previous drawing, Painting -in a different way- and partly a certain awareness of the brush strokes as in oriental Calligraphy.

A “Minor Art”? …perhaps, but with capital letters.

Conservation PH was taken into account throughout the whole process.
All my work here is “archival quality”.

Marcel Garbi

Artworks by Marcel Garbi

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Rescuing the princess from the frozen lands by Marcel Garbi

Watercolour

Disconnected by Marcel Garbi

Watercolour

End of day by Marcel Garbi

Watercolour

A hug in the rain by Marcel Garbi

Watercolour

Emerging by Marcel Garbi

Watercolour

So many trips... by Marcel Garbi

Watercolour

Sipping a soft drink in a sleeping world by Marcel Garbi

Watercolour

Pup by Marcel Garbi

Watercolour

Soon, baby, soon by Marcel Garbi

Watercolour

The reader was the poem by Marcel Garbi

Watercolour

Hundreds of MPs and Lords have Irish passports by Marcel Garbi

Ink drawing

Blanca's journey into White Earth by Marcel Garbi

Watercolour