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Martin Greenland Nameless Hill After Midsummer, Oil on canvasMartin Greenland Nameless Hill After Midsummer, Oil on canvas
Archived: Nameless Hill After Midsummer, Oil on canvas 41 x 72 cm
Martin Greenland Headland, Oil on canvas 90.5 x 121cmMartin Greenland Headland, Oil on canvas 90.5 x 121cm
Archived: Headland, Oil on canvas 90.5 x 122 cm
Martin Greenland Nameless Hill in September, Oil on canvasMartin Greenland Nameless Hill in September, Oil on canvas
Archived: Nameless Hill in September, Oil on canvas board 28 x 46 cm
Martin Greenland Below Cleabarrow, chill (memory), Oil on canvasMartin Greenland Below Cleabarrow, chill (memory), Oil on canvas
Archived: Below Cleabarrow, chill (memory), Oil on canvas 26 x 31 cm
Martin Greenland Nameless Hill, Oil on canvasMartin Greenland Nameless Hill, Oil on canvas
Archived: Nameless Hill, Oil on canvas 90.5 x 122 cm
Martin Greenland Elva Plain, Oil on canvasMartin Greenland Elva Plain, Oil on canvas
Archived: Elva Plain, Oil on canvas 56 x 81 cm

1962  Born in Marsden, Yorkshire
1979 – 1981  Studied Nelson and Colne College
1982 – 1985  Exeter College of Art, Awarded First Class Honours Degree in Fine Art (Painting)

Awards

  • 2015 Finalist – Visual Artist of the Year, Cumbria Life Culture Awards
  • 2013 North of England Regional Prize winner, Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London
  • 2006 First prize winner of the John Moores, 24 – Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool.
  • 2003 Commissioned to produce a painting of the newly re-built Paternoster Square, next to St. Paul’s Cathedral, London, which was presented to The Lord Mayor of London, and which now hangs in The Mansion House.
  • 2000 GCI Financial Purchase Prize at Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London.

Statement

‘Landscape painting is necessarily parochial. It fails as an international language and therefore is shunned even more by contemporary artists and thinkers. It is hated because it is the chosen subject of the amateur, of the ‘Sunday painter’. All of this simply makes me more committed to it. I love (there is a dangerous word, also hated in contemporary circles) to explore, analyse, digest the ‘real’ landscape, wherever, whatever it is. I equally ‘love’ to refashion it, to invent, re-create using this language in which I feel fluent. At the same time I am firmly committed to the structure of ‘nature’, of paying attention to its laws, its physics. Only occasionally and very deliberately I will break those laws and in doing so I am able to do something which I have the ability as an artist to do, to make a metaphor, a symbol, become a concrete illusion, a surprise, a piece of surrealism, another artistic trend I also once wished to avoid. I am also committed to ‘nature’ because even after mankind has attempted to shape and distort it, it is impressively resistant, self-generating, entirely independent and completely unaware of us as humans – it is unquestionable. Yet despite all this I am drawn to and intrigued by the mark which we as humans have made upon our land.

All of my paintings combine elements of things I have encountered in the best part of fifty-one years (I can remember things from the age of two), whether strongly or vaguely remembered. What can be safely said is that these landscapes and every single element within them, exists only in these paintings.’

Martin Greenland
2013

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