A SELECTION OF PAST EXHIBITIONS
WHAT THE EARTH REMEMBERS
Foldyard Gallery, May 2026
'What the Earth Remembers' displayed a series of work which Paul Martin called his Concretions. They attract at first through light and colour: some radiant and glowing, some more muted, though blazing forth in sudden flashes of brightness. They are concerned with substance and materiality, the layering up and scraping back of the materials telling of how the works, like the landscapes they depict, have grown into themselves...
WHERE ECHOES REST
Dalkeith Palace, June 2025
In June 2025, a new exhibition 'Where Echoes Rest' took place in Dalkeith Palace, Scotland, which displayed for the first time Paul Martin’s final works, alongside a wide selection of earlier pieces, and provided a fascinating portrait of a remarkable artist. 'The greatest audacity', wrote Andre Gide, 'is that at the end of life', and these last works showed Martin still audacious, still striving, still seeking, still unyielding in his quest to grasp the ‘thisness of things’ and to see into the nature of nature....
EDGELANDS - Paul Martin + Idris Murphy
Warburton Gallery, Nov - Jan 2015
Paul Martin and Idris Murphy met in London at the age of 22; they met again in Perth, Western Australia at 65, a meeting which planted the seed for this show. The intervening years were spent painting and making, teaching and learning, seeking an understanding of the nature of nature and a sense of which what Martin has called “the gritty sacredness of places and things”...
WHEN MEN AND MOUNTAINS MEET
Dovecot Studios / Warburton Arts, April 2014
We live today, in an increasingly materialistic and technocratic world, The exhibition 'When Men and Mountains Meet' seeked to explore the the human need to find, or to create, a space apart in which to consider the meaning and significance of things, the value we put on our environment and our sense of the poetic and the sacred...
THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY - Paul Martin
Henderson Gallery, August 2009
The title of this exhibition alluded to a common human inability to perceive the nature of visual things. These pictures are about making sense of things, of people, of places. They are an attempt to bring together some of the many fragments of our experience, and in doing so they represented both the developments and departures in Paul Martin’s work at that particular time...
MESSENGER
Bourne Fine Art / The Fine Art Society, May 2008
In this exhibition, Paul Martin's fourth with Bourne Fine Art, Martin continued to develop the material possibilities of encaustic wax, oil and collage, exploiting their rich colours and textured surfaces. His subject matter draws from the metaphors of language, sign, rhythm and matter. In this body of work Martin attempts to describe the nature of universal qualities...
PAUL MARTIN - Paul Martin
Flying Colours, August 2006
The title of this exhibition alluded to a common human inability to perceive the nature of visual things. These pictures are about making sense of things, of people, of places. They are an attempt to bring together some of the many fragments of our experience, and in doing so they represented both the developments and departures in Paul Martin’s work at that particular time...
INSCAPES
Bourne Fine Art / The Fine Art Society, May 2004
Drawing from myth and tradition, the exhibition 'Inscape' Paul Martin's third with Bourne Fine Art, continues to develop the material possibilities of encaustic wax, oil and pastel, while celebrating something of the innate significance of things and events through iconic simplification and an appreciation of their numinous presence...
NEW WORKS - PAUL MARTIN - Paul Martin
Bourne Fine Art / The Fine Art Society, May 2001
The Paul Martin's paintings are large in scale and theme, figurative and multi-layered. They are contemplative works, metaphorical, full of illusions and consequently open to many different interpretations. The encaustic medium employed in the paintings uses an ancient technique; a mixture of pure beeswax and raw pigment build up into subtle layers of colour and texture. The result is a translucent richness together with a soft internal light...
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