European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 4, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse July 1977 the stars and stripes Page 9 Brush useful accent artist likes Broad sweep Story and photos by rud1 Williams the Netherlands when 5 Brell Martin picks up a Large Palm Brush it int to splash paint on the living room and when to picks up a Huwui Hes not necessarily going to pick his these Are the tools of his Martin artist who uses regular House painting brushes in his work to eliminate mile Brush and Ooth etch in he Call Hii Soll an impressionist be cause All his creations arc film cols of his the artist never knows what the end product will look Start with a Basic idea and make changes As i go he dabbling in oils is a moneymaking Avo cation for Martin the specialist has been making his livelihood As a clerk in the personnel office at a cent since october he spent i years at the Canvas before trying to sell his in More concerned about someone liking what i do Money comes he if i know someone really likes a ill come Down on the once a before putting his paintings on the Market last Martin used them As gifts for friends and i started Selling them out of the artist to was amazed that they sold so Well nine of his paintings sold for Between and in loss than two months after they were displayed in the officers Suc Cess has made him decide to continue sell ing them to recover some of the costs of Martin garnered first prize at the age of is in the Only Art contest he Ever 1 Learned a lot about painting and making canvases from a Painter in who Only Paintal in the he he used to Lei me watch the innovative artist makes his own Canvas from scratch out of closely knit White cloth the Elnyth is Stretc lied and sealed with a Whit nil a self taught Martin attended Tun Art classes in but dropped out because there want enough individuality in the work he also dropped out of a private High school fur Diplomat children in Uma to the dismay his once you drop out they will not let you Back he he was inspired la paint at the age of ii while attending Grade school in Nixb an Geles in Between his fathers Transfer from robber plan suspect shot in West Berlin Berlin up a West Berlin Detec Tive has shot dead a 37yearold jordanian suspected of planning a police said tote detective and some Colle macs watched the suspect handing a Metal Lic looking object to another after the two jordanians had the 33yearold detective followed the suspect in his jumped out and ordered him to Stop and raise Hia the detective Laler told investigators thai the jordanian did not heed the order but turned around and put a hand in a pocket of his detective then fired a shot from about three Yards critically wound ing the police said the jordanian died before reaching a police said they found a sciutto and a passport on the dead jordanian the other jordanian was police police said la dead Jur Dansan had been placed under surveillance on suspicion slotting to Rob a fellow countryman of his Money in a West Berlin creche to my teacher started me out with but there int enough Freedom in to t switched to Martin his Jerry b is now in Colombia working for the state departments Aid Hes equivalent to a Star the Soldier artist my Dart has a lot of toy paintings Oil his i guess my work is Good because my father can afford anything he Martin joined the army Over his fathers objections to Settle Down and Abend some Tiiu in Hie he had lived in Athena Cretin the age of 6 to spent three years in then lagged along with his father to Lima for another three la was then to the Panama canal zone where he decided to join the army in the glow Louing artist prefers the tropical climate of latin but said returning to Europe seemed Tike coming Back he particularly likes the Modem 1 had a maid All my life until i left but Ive always been his living room is Fallt j with his own creations of tables fabricated trom zby4 he does his own Auto body and mechanical work and makes his own frames for his gardening and working with children also elves him a lot of tie has used his Talent in fast and slow pitch soft Ball to teach Tittle league teams at but not this my wife says that were going to travel while were in met his wife Mac help in 1973 Wilile taking a business administration course Al inc University of they were married in the former High school dropout b now about two years his bachelors degree and plans to obtain a masters in business Nadmi Nistra 1 would like to work in overseas business preferably in latin Martin he will never lose his love for painting is like a madness once i i cant Stop until its Fin Igic Fairfi t Phil or la a Shrub he Fult j 5 bred Martin puts the finishing Loaches on one of his the on Imp living room floor with Laler Mont hold ton
