Inspired by the stunning landscapes and sunlight of Cuba, South and Central America, French Polynesia, Asia, and Italy, Marvin Hines has had a lifelong passion for the power of color to conjure emotions and create mood. He frequently explores a range of tones and shapes with a grid-like pattern as a base, or experiments with open forms and freewheeling, painterly brushstrokes. His color-saturated canvases focus on the emotional and psychological reactions to his work as well as the formal consequences of line as it traces and defines abstract forms.

With his investigations into the motion of data flow and game theory, a network frequently underlies Marvin's paintings, which provides a theoretical foundation on which he studies the structural balance within the whole of the picture. It is this tension between configuration and the more spontaneous moments of creation which provides the aesthetic spark to Marvin's images. Although there is a mathematical base to his creativity, his artwork appeals to pleasures both visual and emotional.