Jean Martin's sculptures are built from a single material, stainless steel nuts — the same high-grade steel used in the construction of superyachts — welded one by one into luminous, ethereal figures.
Through years of experimentation, he refined a single technique that arranges these nuts into a delicate lacework. By reducing the human figure to its essential silhouette and leaving out the details, he creates sculptures that are simultaneously solid and transparent, present and discreet.
This transparency allows the sculptures to integrate harmoniously into architectural or natural settings, while still creating a striking presence. They seem to echo the character of St Barth itself: an island that is both light and intense.
Jean Martin is a French sculptor based in Saint-Barthélemy, renowned for his elegant stainless-steel statues composed of hundreds of meticulously welded metal nuts. Jean Martin's work is exhibited and collected worldwide — in the United States, France, London, Geneva, Buenos Aires, Tel Aviv, and throughout Saint Barthélemy.