About the Artist

Marlin Peterson (Renton) has been engaged in all styles of graphic imagery since he was very young. From cartooning to science illustration he is also fluent in all manners of media, both traditional and digital. He is at home illustrating the unseen sagas of the world of insects and arachnids, prehistoric mammals, and caricatures of people. Marlin has painted several large-scale murals throughout the Puget Sound area.

Marlin will use 2011 GAP funding to paint a large public mural in Seattle that is both staggering to the viewer for its size and subject, and amusingly perplexing for its “trompe l’oeil” realism. The majority of the cost will be the rental of a boom lift to reach high onto the wall. This will allow the mural to be able to be completed fast, and give it the great size and scope that will make it a landmark and an icon.