The play of light and shadow
John D Martin is a member of the Royal Society of British Artists and has won many awards, including the David Murray Landscape Scholarship, the W H Patterson Prize, the Fabrica Painting Prize, the Winsor & Newton Best Artist Award and the de Laszlo medal for Excellence at the Royal Society of British Artists’ 2006 Open Exhibition.
Inspired by artists such as the Camden Town Group, particularly Walter Sickert, Harold Gilman and Spencer ‘Freddy’ Gore, John D Martin creates atmospheric, light-filled paintings that have been widely admired and are in various public and private collections all over the world.
Starting out
‘From an early age, I painted in oils. My aunt gave me a
