Martin Dansky, born in 1952 is a Canadian born artist who began his career through an art gallery Il Ponte run by Roberto Ascolese in Italy. A mostly a self-taught artist, he has been actively painting professionally since 1992 and since then, has moved through a naif-figurative style using various media charcoal, pen, watercolour and oil, with a willingness to explore vibrant, multidimensional, more abstract themes.