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Art Education:
Ipswich School of Art (Portrait Sculpture)
Norwich School of Art (Life drawing)
University of East Anglia, B.Ed. (Art & Design)
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2008 ‘Print Fair, Elements II’, The Forum, Norwich
2002 - 08 LAST, Zurich, Switzerland. Bircham Contemporary Art, Holt
2004-08 Grapevine Gallery, Norwich. COSA, Notting Hill, London
2007 Outer Temple Chambers, (two person show), The Strand, London
2006 Chocolate Factory Gallery, Southwark. Three person show, David Curzon Gallery, Wimbledon. John Allen Fine Arts, Core One, .Chelsea.
‘Forty by Four’, Atticus Arts, Bath
2006 -08 Buckenham Galleries, Southwold
Walker Galleries, Harrogate
2000-05 John Russell Gallery, Ipswich
2000 -02 NNAC Millenium Exhibition, Norwich .Cathedral
‘British Contemporary Art‘, Deloitte and ....Touche, Zurich, Switzerland
Woodbine Contemporary Arts, Lincolnshire. Fisherton Mill Gallery, Salisbury. Field .Dalling Gallery, Norfolk. Red Gallery, Marlow
Taylor Contemporary Art, Twickenham.
1992 -99 Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour, Mall Galleries, London
Castle Museum, Norwich. Contact Gallery, Norwich. The Laing Open, Raveningham. Heffer Gallery Cambridge. The Riverside Gallery, Snape Maltings. Barn Galleries, Aston, Henley-on-Thames
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2005/07 LAST, Zurich, Switzerland
2005/07 Grapevine Gallery, Norwich
2002/04 John Russell Gallery, Ipswich
2003 Bircham Contemporary Art, Holt
1998/99/00/01/02 Frames Gallery, Norwich
1998 The Music House Gallery, Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh
1996 The Lantern Gallery, Walberswick
1995 The Frederick Gallery, Raveningham
1994 St. Gregory’s Art Centre, Norwich
ART FAIRS
London Art 2006, Islington.
Art London 2005, Chelsea.
'Affordable Art Fair’, Bristol and Battersea, London
'Art on Paper’ Royal College of Art, London.
The Norwich Print Fair,
Norfolk Visual Arts Festival Open Studio Scheme, 1997/98/99/2000/08
‘The Eastern Open‘, 1998/99/01/03, Fermoy Gallery, Kings Lynn
MEDIA
‘The Dictionary of Artists in Britain since 1945’, Ed. David Bruckman
‘Wide Skies, a Century of Painting and Painters in Norfolk’ by A. May & B. Watts
Feature articles in the ‘Artist’ magazine, various dates
‘Arty-Facts’ (Featured artist), Imago productions for Anglia TV, July 2004
I have work in private collections in Europe, Japan, U.S.A., and Canada; and the Sainsbury Centre Loan collection, U.E.A.
BIOGRAPHY
Martin Laurance began his career as an engraver and graphic designer, attending art school classes in portrait sculpture and life drawing before taking a B.Ed. in art and design. He has taught in high schools and adult education centres and now paints full time. After an early exhibiting career during which he held one-man shows in the UK. the Middle East and the USA, his interest in painting and printmaking began to be replaced by drawing and for a number of years he devoted his time solely to life drawing, rarely exhibiting these works.
By the mid 1990's his attention turned once again to landscape and he resumed solo exhibitions and participation in many group shows. After the discipline of the figure and the austerity of pencil and charcoal the scale of his work became large, with monochrome being replaced with vibrant colour.
Martin's work is in private collections in this country and abroad, including the Sainsbury Centre Loan Collection, University of East Anglia.
ARTISTS STATEMENT
My work is about landscape. In my paintings I try to convey the spirit and reality of a place. Going beyond the immediate sensation to something felt and experienced.
Many of my locations are very well known to me and have been walked over and drawn many times. In the studio I use this raw material to create a work that is true to my experience. By allowing other elements such as memory to enter the picture-making process the work becomes richer, and to me, more meaningful.
I work in a variety of mixed media; oil, acrylic, collage, ink, charcoal, watercolur and gouache, singly or in combinations on paper or canvas.
