Anton Marrast (Russian, b. 1983) is a Barcelona-based illustrator and digital artist whose work moves between imagined, surreal worlds and closely observed everyday reality. He describes his style as “psychedelic surrealism” and works across pens, markers, and digital tools, creating characters who move through intriguing, evocative narratives.
Marrast has drawn since childhood and, by his own account, most of his pictures begin with a single image he stares at until an idea emerges, rather than the reverse. His project Ex Cyclopedia began with an image of two cyclopes conceived as a bonded pair, symbolizing connection and complementarity, and grew into a nonlinear, ongoing fictional universe loosely inspired by Greek mythology and blending industrial, science-fiction, and rural imagery. In another series, Slow Story, Marrast tells the love story between two young cyclopes using minimal, defined lines in only black and grey. In Core/Relate, Marrast turned to the real locations he inhabits, treating overlooked street corners and industrial landmarks as living archives of collective memory.
