I was also influenced by the work of my grandfather Jean Edmond MARTY (1900 – 1968).

He was born in 1900 and studied a year at the Beaux Arts in Bordeaux. He had to stop his classes

during the war and when the war ended, he did not resume his art studies, he had to work. To live,
He painted billboards and was also known as a letters’ painter.

The signature of my Grandfather was JEM. He has often been compared to the Douanier Rousseau.

His brother, Gaston MARTY, three years younger began the Beaux Arts of which he became a Professor renowned in Bordeaux and he exhibited a lot with his wife sculpter.