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POST VIEW

admin — Thu, 10 May 2012 08:01:59 +0000

If you are traveling it Kent enjoy a day in Whitstable and call in at the The Horsebridge Centre, 11 Horsebridge Road, Whitstable, Kent CT5 1AF. there you will find “Love the post, love the view - POST VIEW”.

An exhibition based on postcards sent to the centre through the royal Mail. I’ve sent my two in.

POST VIEW, Friday, May 11, 2012 to Saturday, June 30, 2012 - 9 till 6 seven days a week at The Horsebridge Centre, Whitstable, Kent.

Look, there’s another one

admin — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 17:19:06 +0000

You wait six months for a post then two arrive together.The internationally travelling show “The Visitors” has up sticks and is moving on again. This time to the Escola de Musica in Cambrils in Cataluna, from the 18th of May until the 15th of June you can find it in their central garden.Escola de Musica, Passeig Albart, s/n, Cambrils, Cataluna.My little sculpture features a collection of vermin in a paper bag, and is called “the visitors”.

A new post

admin — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 16:50:26 +0000

After a long absence from this blog and a period of recouperation in Spain, well Catalunia but it is right on the border, I thought it was time to put in an entry.Here are the postcards that I sent back to England;

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

admin — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 15:44:40 +0000

have a jolly good Christmas, Solstice, Inti Raymi, Feast of Frith, Yule, Bodhi Day, Modranect, Hanukkah, Refrigerator Day, Eid ul-Adha, Yalda or Saturnalia, and if your celebrations continue in the February have a good Hedgehog Day.

Lots of love, Martin

4 man show

admin — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 06:40:28 +0000

I am participating in this exhibition please come along if you can.

printing bloc

admin — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 10:07:20 +0000

This is my latest work;”printing block” is a literal interpretation of its name. Developed from the lino-print “road crossing” and part of the series “how to cross a road” it is a very large printing block made from mdf and plywood. Based on an earlier print, a close up of two zebra heads, “road crossing”, it explores the nature of black, it reflects no light and could in effect not be there, so i’ve taken it away.

“road crossing”

The original design was enlarged transfered to the mdf cut out and assembled. Prior to finishing several prints were taken from the block, printing white on black paper, entitled “major road crossing”. The surface of the block was inked with a roller and has a resulting dimpled effect, the recesses were painted with blackboard paint in an attempt to make them disappear.

“printing bloc” in progress.

The resulting piece has to be seen in the round for the effect to work, initially it looks like a painting or a print but on moving the surface catches your eye disturbing your unconscious and revealing another dimension.

“printing bloc”

Several prints were taken from the block, printing white ink onto black handmade paper, not terribly successfully, it is notoriously difficult to print white on black as the ink is slightly transparrent. But the prints did show that it was possible and that printing block deserves its name.

“printing bloc print”

E17 Arts Trail

admin — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 06:19:15 +0000

Its that time of year again all over the capital people are flood ing to the exits. The rush to leave has greater emphasis now that riot season has started. All over town people are looting Primarks and Icelands.

PRIMARKS, I ask you, I blame the teachers, don’t these people know where Harrods is.But I suppose if thats where your horizons are set, mind you they should also realise they will not get away with it, its only bankers that are allowed to rob us blind and then get rewarded for it.

Then there are those poor souls left in Walthamstow, for whom the riots only mean another subject for inclusion in this years Arts Trail. Not that I have responded to that stimuli, being in exile in Ramsgate the only effect the riots had here was that Waitroseclosed an hour early just in case.

The studio is open for the trail from Thursday the 1st 6- 9pm, the full times are listed below, and I am showing some work based upon zebras, part of the “how to cross a road series”.

Everybody else has work on display so it should be a good visit. Matte downstairs will be printing away on his letter presses and on Thursday the 1st is holding the launch of E17 Poetry Trail Anthology from 7.30.

I have also made an illustration of a wonderful poem by Gerda Mayer called”My Own My Native Land…”

That’s it–

the house at the back–

home of my childhood.

The bloomers hung out to dry

in what once was the daisyfield

have been added since.

Unabashed they flaunt themselves

well to the fore.

A flag hoisted by the usurpeers, they say:

Seeker of the past – this is new land.

I have no idea where it will be seen.

We are open for a preview night on Thursday the 1st of September from 6pm, and the Paekakariki Press will be holding the E17 Poetry Trail Anthology Launch from 7.30. We are then open at the weekends and the Wednesday of the trail.

These are the September trail dates for your diary;

Thursday 1st 6-9pm

Saturday 3rd 12-6pm

Sunday 4th 12-6pm

Wednesday 7th 12-8pm

Saturday 10th 12-6pm

Sunday 11th 12-6pm

Mitre Studios, 4a Mitre Ave, rear of 2 Greenleaf Road E17.

Discoveries

admin — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 07:56:26 +0000

I am exhibiting some work in “Discoveries” at the WaterWorks, Lammas Road, London E10 7NU, is an exhibition of works inspired by the hidden beauty of local nature. The setting, in a nature reserve made from the old victorian filter beds, is worth a visit in itself, you can even have a round of golf or your lunch whilst you are there.

How can you afford to miss it. 2nd August till the 3rd of September, 9am till 6pm, 8am - 7pm at weekends. Or come and meet the artists at the private view on the 4th of August 7pm - 9pm.

up-date… at last

admin — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 16:43:28 +0000

It has been a very long time since I have up dated this blog. Too much work to much happening. At the moment I am residing in Ramsgate, with all my belongings in store in Edmonton waiting for me to successfully buy a new dwelling. Never mind, I have been progressing one or two pieces here is one ”happy feet”.

“happy feet” started from a request to enter an exhibition to promote our local cinema campaign, ( the McGuffin’s), organised by a local framing service and gallery the E17 Art House, the request was for a print based on a favourite film. The direct inspiration came from Finish photographers Esa Mälkönen entry in the 2010 Veolia Environnement Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition, “Back in, front out”.

They sure looked like “happy feet” to me. I montaged the picture into a larger group, cut it in vinyl and produced the print.

Esa’s photograph can be seen at; www.nhm.ac.uk/visit-us/whats-on/temporary-exhibitions/wpy/photo.do?photo=2648&category=49&group=1

McGuffin’s can be seen at; www.mcguffin.info/

E17 Art House at; www.e17arthouse.com

new year, new studio

admin — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 17:25:14 +0000

The times they are a changing, after a somewhat traumatic year the new one finds me installed in a new studio in preparation for moving house.

Mitre Studios

The studios are at the moment a work in progress, we are moving in and building our nest, walls and sinks are being installed which in some cases is slowing down the creative juices, well thats my excuse anyway.

They are situated at 4a Mitre Ave, Walthamstow, London E17 6QG, (rear of 2 Greenleaf Road ). Almost impossible to find using Google maps as the post-code is miss positioned by Ordnance Survey, but fear not we are at the top of Greenleaf Road, near its junction with Hoe St, the entrance is under an arch formed by a building, down the end of the alleyway and up the stairs.

The we are my fellow artists, Della Rees, Kirsten Schmidt, Alke Schmidt, and Carn Giffiths, and we all sit on top of the Paekakariki Press, the letterpress enterprise run by Matte McKenzie. Do come and visit I will be there most weekday mornings, but best to contact me first just to make sure.