The becoming,layer by layer.

Painting as an inquiry
into becoming.

For Elias Marr a painting is never an end point. It is a moment, captured during an ongoing process of becoming and changing. He works in layers: each new layer responds to what lies beneath it, until something emerges that comes closest to a geological cross-section of time and chance.

In his figures he deliberately leaves open whether they are human or animal. That ambiguity is not carelessness — it is where the work draws its tension from.