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Mary Martin - Artist, Cornwall, UK. |
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Biography Mary Martin, Dip AD (1972); Post Grad (Painting) RAS (1975); Bard of Cornish Gorsedd. Professional painter, in oil and watercolour, of landscape and seascape, garden and still life. Born: St. Dominic, 24th May 1951. Educated: Callington Grammar. Studied: West of England College of Art, Bristol; Gloucester College of Art, Cheltenham; Royal Academy Schools, London (under Peter Greenham). Exhibitions: London, Bristol, Cornwall etc. Work in public collections: National Trust; National Maritime Museum, Greenwich; Plymouth City Museum; Hotel de Ville, Lorient, France. |
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Anemones in the tunnel (18 x 22 in) |
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Publications: “A Wayward Genius, Neville Northy Burnard, Cornish Sculptor, 1818-1878” by Mary Martin, Lodenek Press, 1978. Illustrated “Burcombes, Queenies and Colloggetts, the makings of a Cornish orchard” by Virginia Spiers, West Brendon, 1996. “Olives, Lavender and Vineyards, a Cornish painter in the South of France” by Mary Martin and Virginia Spiers, West Brendon, 2002. Documentary film: BBC 1 “Daffodils, Bullions and Steam”, first shown in1984. Other interests: With her partner James Evans, Mary has collected and rescued from extinction cherry and apple varieties that were once widespread in the Tamar Valley. They now tend an orchard of Cornish fruit trees and the National Trust at Cotehele is replicating their unique collection of over 200 cultivars of cherries, apple, plums and pears. |
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Blossom above the valley in early summer (18 x 22 in) |
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| August fruits in the orchard (18 x 24 in) | Brilliant morning sun - river and reed beds at Cotehele Quay (18 x 22 in) |
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Frost, sheep and sunlit trees (18 x 18 in) |
Cherry trees in Murden Valley - April afternoon (18 x 22 in) |
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