sonia victor wife of the artist said she was impressed with martin for having shown his creativity in this art form ludhiana having migrated to ludhiana recently following his marriage to a local in november martin could immediately relate to the love and warmth an integral part of the punjabi spirit in the 80s and 90s martin was involved with poetry as well as various craft projects having taken to working with ceramics as a hobby as a first effort on his part he is displaying paintings that have drawn inspiration from the community of artists in the city the exhibition is not simply meant to showcase the artists creativity and talent the artist would be donating nearly 20 of the earnings from this event to darpan a school for those with autistic tendencies an american artist has organized his first paintings exhibition dance of the scribbles at artmosphere gallery in ludhiana he hopes to settle down here and contribute to the city martin victor originally from san jose california has been honing his painting skills for the past eight years he said just like a child scribbled on every available piece of paper he scribbled on paper and canvas it is exciting to be a part of this momentum he came to india in november 2010 and has made ludhiana his home talking about the exhibition victor said it had creations that were a result of spontaneous creativity that used a unique technique called scribbling beautiful creations out of chaos are thus what many of his creations stand for the scribbles have formed divergent shapes including those of humans as well as animals and abstract shapes he said i feel we are on the threshold of something big on the art scene in ludhiana earlier on little did he know that he would become a painter and would organize a painting exhibition at ludhiana