JOHN MARTIN R.B.A (born
1957)
“Still
Life with Anemones”
Oil
Painting on Canvas. 20” x 18”
Signed .
IMAGE
“Spring
Morning Saddlecombe”
Oil
Painting on Canvas. 12” x 25.5”
Signed .
IMAGE
“The
Fish Market, Venice”
Oil
Painting on Canvas over Board. 10” x 22”
Signed . IMAGE
“Accademia Bridge, Venice”
Oil
painting on Canvas. 13” x 21.5”
Signed .
IMAGE
“Rye
Harbour”
Oil
Painting on Canvas over Board. 6.5” x 22.5”
Signed .
IMAGE
“Chalk
Path near Plumpton”
Oil
Painting on Canvas over Board. 12” x 8”
Signed .
IMAGE
“Looking
towards Agen, Morning Light”
Oil
Painting on Canvas over Board. 10” x 8”
Signed.
IMAGE
“Birling
Gap”
Oil
Painting on Canvas over Board. 10” x 8”
Signed.
IMAGE
“Gone
for a Swim”
Oil
Painting on Canvas over Board. 6” x 10”
Signed .
IMAGE
“La
Rochelle Harbour”
Oil
Painting on Canvas over Board. 8” x 8”
Signed .
IMAGE
“Beach
Party”
Oil
Painting on Canvas over Board. 6.25” x 8.25”
Signed .
IMAGE
“Family
Group, Ile de Re, France”
Oil
Painting on Canvas over Board. 6.25” x 8.25”
Signed .
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“Two
Sisters”
Oil
Painting on Canvas over Board. 6.25” x 8.25”
Signed .
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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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