Commission for Network Rail's National Training Centre in Coventry. A colourful, graphic image suitable for spacious interiors: chosen in favour of other proposals concerning natural forms in muted colours. Martin now considers it a one-off corporate design not representative of his work. However, this large canvas was well received when exhibited at London City Airport in 2006.
Commission for Network Rail Ltd (Painting)
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Shore, installation at Emsworth Sailing Club, Hampshire
The first of many installations, Shore was part of a group show at a Hampshire Sailing Club in 1987. The photograph is a re-creation of the piece in the early 2000s. The bespoke table frame was made by Ray Davis of Haslemere. The original work used found objects from the harbour shoreline. The... -
Yesterday
Section from proposal for installation. The work focuses on tabloid media, using hung newspapers to cover space; underscoring the transience of ‘news’ – though according permanency to what is otherwise forgotten and discarded. Executed at Martin's home studio of the time in Rotherhithe. -
Commission for Plincke Landscape Ltd (Mural)
Paint sketch for mural at the Hampshire office of a landscape gardener. The final piece - completed in situ in one day - employed a paler and greyer palette. Unfortunately, no photograph of the finished painting survives. Following research, the company have changed premises and the original work... -
Free Dimensions, print series shown at the Norrish Central Library, Portsmouth
From a series of prints of various media shown at a city library exhibition space in 1992. All seven works may be viewed at: http://www.slidel.info/free.html -
Sensing, slide installation, the Dance Studio, University of Brighton
One image from the third and final sequence of an installed slide show at Brighton School of Art. Also selected for Degree Shows and external examination. -
Dehiscence, commission for Fighting Chance Ltd (Painting)
First in a sequence of three paintings for the online identity of a social inclusion support service, based in Birmingham, UK. -
Balanced menus for beauty using the mixer
Sets of paper weaves that flow from text to image in a literal translation of recipe to product, depicted as a sliding scale representing weights and measures. The piece uses sections from an historic magazine, a 1970s part-work by Marguerite Patten. As advisor for the Ministry of Food during WW2,...