A Fine Art degree and post graduate in art education , a North West Arts printmaking fellowship after university and most recently the Oyler Hayward painting prize from Lincolnshire Artists Society.
After a working life mainly in art education it is both odd and rewarding finding oneself at this stage of life considering all the twists and turns that have occurred to arrive here ! Still searching for answers though I have to say I have not made that much progress!
Landscape has become the central starting point for thinking and exploring in paint. I paint landscape from observations and references through the lens of a camera at a particular moment in time trying to capture feelings, memories and sense of place as experienced . I paint and make images of the landscape and villages of the Upper and Lower Lymn Valley and surrounding areas, essentially Tennyson country.
Painting is a process of finding out. It is a primitive action and making pictorial images of any consequence can feel as if it’s coming from within though it is inspired by without. It is a physical and emotional act. It is often a struggle for realisation , a kind of reckoning resolved as reconciliation . You can never achieve exactly what you wish or desire, one may try, others may appreciate what you have done but doubt arises and then there can be a sense of under achievement. The sequential response is to go again! Perhaps next time you may feel a little better about your efforts.
I admire the work of Michael Andrews , Patrick George, Andrew Wyeth and Euan Uglow and you may see some of their influence in my work.
Martin Moyers
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