PAUL MARTIN
 

​​OPEN: MON - SAT 10.30 - 4PM

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AT THE FOLDYARD GALLERY, 44 BRIDGE STREET, BERWICK-UPON-TWEED

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- All works available for purchase in this exhibition are listed below -

​​​​We are pleased to announce a new exhibition What the Earth Remembers which will display part of a series of work which Paul Martin called his Concretions. These paintings 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 gesso, varnish and pigments telling of how the works, like the landscapes they depict, have grown into themselves.

These works invite us to look through the landscape into what Gérard Manley Hopkins, a poet always important to Martin, called the inscape.

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​Exhibited alongside these paintings are a set of four bronze reliefs, called: A Door to Paradise. These bronzes were originally intended to form a door, influenced by the doors of the Basilica of San Zeno, in Verona. Martin admired these for the primitive vigour of their craftsmanship, and for the way their reliefs responded to light and shade, weathering and patination. The imagery of Martin's bronzes derives from the work of the 4th century writer Ephraim the Syrian, whose Hymns on Paradise render the somewhat arid discourse of theology in immediate, vivid and sensuous form.

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Paul Martin enjoyed a career spanning nearly half a century of painting and printmaking during which he exhibited widely, both at home and abroad. His work is held in the collections of the British Museum and BBC, among others. Over the course of his career he garnered many awards including The British Institution prize for Printmaking and The Royal Academy Awards for Painting and Printmaking.

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