Martin Wittfooth was born in Toronto in 1981, and spent of his childhood in Finland, moving back to Canada in 1993. He currently lives and works in Brooklyn, where he earned his MFA at the School of Visual Arts in 2008. His art draws much inspiration from the works of classical masters, the observation of both natural and manmade environments and landscapes, and contemporary issues. His oil paintings are essentially explorations of the meeting of these very sources.