The focus of my work is concentrated on activities around water and the patterns and distortions that are created when people pass through it be it a tidal river or outdoor pool. The close proximity of Tooting Bec Lido and the tidal Thames enables me to make regular visits providing stimulus and inspiration for fresh ideas. These are reinforced by drawing and photography. The images are arrived at through a process of editing and composting, an approach that provides a constant challenge but one that satisfies a constant creative need. I construct images in layers, adding and subtracting details at each stage and work on several paintings at once, like a production line. Each painting can lead and influence the next. The approach is far from traditional and expresses an ability to change and alter things as the image emerges from the paper and is more like oil painting

EXHIBITIONS

1988 Southbank Open Royal Festival Hall, Southbank.

1990 ‘Art 90’ Olympia, London.

1990 ‘Singer & Friedlander watercolour Open Mall Galleries.

1991 ‘Thames - A liquid History’ Circle Galleries, Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith.

1992 ‘Impressions’ Concourse Galleries, Barbican, London.
1995 ‘Southwark Open’ South London Gallery.
1998 ‘Not the Royal Academy’ Llewellyn Alexander Gallery, Waterloo, London.
2000 ‘Century 21’ watercolour open Bankside Gallery, Southwark, London.
2001 Summer show Bloxham Galleries, Battersea, London.

2003 Royal Institute of Painters in W’colours Open, Mall Galleries, London.

2006 ‘Le Dessin- Sept Expressions’ Alexandre Mottier Galleries, Geneva.
2008 Wandsworth Artists Cooperative The Old Picture House, Wandsworth, London.

2009 ‘Setting up shop’ WAC Unit 45, Southside Shopping Centre,

Wandsworth, London.

2009 ‘The Art of Sport’ Orleans House Gallery,

Richmond Upon Thames, Surrey.

2010 ‘Intersections’ Acquire Gallery, Battersea, London.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

1987 ‘Exposed’ St Judes Gallery, Kensington, London.
1988 ‘One to One’ Blenheim Gallery, Notting Hill, London.
1996 ‘A Bigger splash’ Rob Gallery, Amsterdam.
1996 ‘A bend in the river’ Novotel, Hammersmith, London.
1997 ‘In at the deep end’ Wolfeson College, Oxford.
1999 ‘Sporting bodies’ The Contemporary Art Gallery, Belgravia.
2002 ‘Liquid London’ Wandsworth Arts Festival, Earlsfield, London.
2006 ‘Waterworld’ Adonis Art Gallery, Earls Court, London.

2008 ‘Back to the river’ Kirkham gallery, Henley River & Rowing Museum.

2009 ‘Another Bigger Splash’ Palm Springs, California.

PUBLICATIONS

1999 ‘Rejecting the Best; Financial Times
2003 ‘Painters Pools’ Southwest magazine
2005 ‘In the Swim’ Artists & Illustrators magazine

COLLECTIONS

Museums of Merseyside , Maritime Museum, Liverpool, Palm Springs Art Museum, California.

Martin graduated at Camberwell School of Art in 1989 and has since developed life drawing programmes
for architects, advertising agencies and private groups throughout London. If you would like to see more work
on display in Battersea or attend a workshop contact me on 07946 354 852
or email: martinireland65@yahoo.co.uk for an appointment.