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EARLY WORKS AND PORTRAITS 1969 - 1990

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In his earliest works Paul Martin was heavily influenced by the painters of the Dutch Golden Age; after his time at the Royal Academy, with its emphasis on life-drawing, he was also producing finely detailed figure studies. Eventually, feeling himself to be creatively blocked, he turned instead to still-life, to paintings of workaday and mundane objects which he would seek to elevate through the intensity of his engagement. In words he often liked to quote from the poet Czeslaw Milosz, his aim was 'to glorify things just because they are'.

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