Martian Let’s go Bananas is a painting by Fanny Brodar with acrylic, oil pastel and oil pencil on canvas.

Fanny Brodar

The inspiration for her paintings usually comes from childhood memories, her imagination and things that are important to her. She is currently working on a series of pieces that feature mars-like figures in various yoga positions, painted in bright, bold colors. The backgrounds are filled with things like planetary objects, rainbows, flowers and words that come to her mind in the middle of the painting. The Martian was created from her childhood imaginary friend (a character that looks a lot like the Great Gazoo from the Flintstones). This character helped her through many difficult times as a child. She is a beekeeper and often incorporates flowers and little monsters into her work. When she weaves all these things together, her paintings become a euphoric tapestry – an otherworldly and magical place where she loves to be. In her own little world, she takes care of nature in a very Buddhist way; she especially loves the smallest creatures and considers it bad luck to kill bugs.

A complete group of her works are the so-called Martian Paintings. Fanny Brodar is working on a series of works with Martian-like figures posing in various portrait and yoga positions and painted in bright, bold colors.

Pictoplasma, the leading character design conference from Berlin, finally returned in october 2023 to New York for its ninth edition—to present the freshest talents and probe the workings of the creative mind on character.Pictoplasma NYC presented 10 hand picked key lectures by the world’s most influential artists and upcoming talents, cutting-edge graphic, toy and game designers and leading animation filmmakers.
Among them was the emerging artist Fanny Brodar. She is an artist originally from Oslo, Norway, now based in Maine. Her love of story writing and creating cartoonish figures started when she was a child. She later studied illustration at the Art Institute of Boston, and discovered a passion for comic and pop art as well as creating her own handwritten typeface, things that she incorporates in her works today. Fanny’s paintings lure the viewer into entering this pictured domain – an otherworldly and magical place, like her childhood bedroom that became whatever she wanted simply by thinking it up. She builds on the nostalgic associations of the audience, presenting monsters that resemble familiar characters from childhood, favourite films, and fashion. Recent exhibitions have taken place at Caelis Galeria Shanghai and YKP Seoul.