Marcus Eek is recognised and celebrated as one of his generation's most skilled artists. Eek's art focuses around an exploration and investigation of painting. An investigation that has resulted in a highly personal and characteristic design language. Eek has individualised his expression and created a distinctive artistic vocabulary where oil, charcoal, scratches, pencil and acrylic in unexpected combinations evokes a wide spectrum of ideas and associations. Eek himself describes that he often returns to "objects", objects that you see but lack a definite shape - water, clouds or fire. Figurative components are transformed into evocative natural forces while disparate and cryptic elements create context and continuity. Eek abstracts without actually being abstract.There is a constant dialog with the history of the genre while at the same time the versatile and expressive treatment of the canvas distinguishes Eek. For Eek there is a poetic value in setting boundaries even when others may not be able to read them. Eek argues that the idea of trying to control the viewer's experience is vain.