JOHN MARTIN R.B.A (born
1957)
“Studio
Still Life”
Oil
Painting on Canvas. Signed. 36” x 22” IMAGE
“Winter
Sunlight”
Oil
Painting on Canvas. Signed. 24” x 20” IMAGE
“The
Whistler Girl”
Oil
Painting on Canvas. Signed. 18” x 22” IMAGE
“Morning
Dazzle, La Flotte, Ile de Re, France”
Oil
Painting on Canvas. Signed. 7” x 8” IMAGE
“Florence from the Boboli Gardens”
Oil
Painting on Board. Signed. 7” x 8” IMAGE
John Martin was born in 1957 and
educated at Hornsey College of Art from 1975 – 1976, Exeter College of Art (where
he obtained a first class honours degree) from 1976 – 1979 and at the Royal
Academy Schools from 1980 – 1983, under Peter Greenham, where he obtained a post-graduate diploma.
His work is in a line of traditional figurative painting, influenced by the
Camden Town Group, particularly Sickert, Gilman and Spencer Gore. John’s paintings reflect a sense of place and
atmosphere. Brian Sewell, Art Critic of the Evening Standard, wrote of John Martin "If you dropped him
down a drain he'd paint an affectionate picture of the drippage and the moss,
and work wonders with the grid and its shadows". He was elected a Member
of the Royal Society of British Artists in 1991 and has been the recipient of
many awards. In 1979 he won the
"Route Cezanne" award, EEC sponsored project to paint in Aix-en
Provence, followed by the David Murray Landscape Scholarship in 1982 – in the
same year he was a prize winner at Stowells of Chelsea. In 1982 and 1983 he won the David Murray
Landscape Scholarship and the Windsor and Newton Student Prize and in 1993 he
was the winner of the W.H. Patterson prize at the Royal Society of British
Artists. In 1999 he won the Northbrooke Painting Prize at the Royal Society of
British Artists. More recently John was
awarded the de Laszio medal at the Royal Society of British Artists 2006 Open
Exhibition. He has held several one-man shows, including Blenheim Gallery and
twice at Milne and Moller and Sebastian Pearson Gallery, Cambridge with mixed
exhibitions in England and abroad including: Ecole Regionale des Beaux Arts,
Rennes; Chagford Gallery, Devon; Royal Academy Summer Show; Sowells of Chelsea;
Christies "Pick of the Graduate Art"; World of Watercolours Fair;
Minton Fine Art Toronto; British Art Fair; Mall Galleries, Royal Society of
British Artists Open; New English Art Club Open; Waterman Fine Art; Royal
Watercolour Society Open; W.H. Patterson, Society of Landscape Painters; Barry Keene Gallery, Henley-on-Thames;
New Grafton Gallery, Barnes; Eric Schmidt, Portugal; Kentucky, U.S.A.; Johnleigh
Gallery; Guildford Arts Festival and Yvonne Arnaud Theatre. Reviews have
appeared in the Tatler Magazine and the Daily Telegraph, also Arts Review, the
Sunday Times and International Artists Magazine. Work by John Martin is in private collections
in England and abroad and in the Norwich County Collection and the Art in
Hospitals Fund. He also has work in the
following publications: Light, How to
Paint It by Lucy Willis, Choosing and
Mixing Colour and , Perspective
for Artists by Angela Gai, Weather by Tish Selligman, Collins
Artists Materials Book by Angela Gai and The Art of Painting and
Drawing by Eaglemoss Publications.
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