Introduction to my Gallery
This is the area that I use to showcase some my work. I like to change it often, so please take some time to browse and see what’s new. All the images are available for sale in the Online Shop where you will also find the rest of my Portfolio.
I like to describe my work as ‘memories on the wall’. I hope that some of the images that you see will bring back memories of places that you have visited so that you too can have a little reminder of what I think is one of the most beautiful areas in the world.
Latest Work
I use this gallery to show case my latest work. Regular collectors often ask me ‘What’s new?’ or ‘Where have you been to this time Martin?’ This gallery, hopefully, will both answer their questions and also provide an introduction to anyone who is new to my work. This gallery is a work in progress and will change often. Please check back over the next twelve months whenever you can as I have a busy schedule of exciting areas to visit both at home and abroad!
Memories on the Wall
In this gallery, I would like to share with you some of my favourite places in the Lake District. These images have been taken whilst out on walks either alone or with my family; so they all bring back memories for me. When I first began to hold exhibitions, I found that my images also brought back memories for other people as they were some of their favourite places too. They told me that they liked to look at my images whilst they were ‘in exile’ from the Lakes either at home or at work.
Please take some time to browse the gallery and I’m sure that you’ll find images that mean something to you too. It may be a place that you’ve already been to or somewhere that you plan to go to soon. Maybe you will just like what you see and are happy to share the image from your own living room without ever venturing there. Either way – enjoy!
Wainwright Walks
I have introduced this gallery to group together some of the images that you’ll find on the walks featured in the Wainwright Walks series with Julia Bradbury that was shown on the BBC. I know that many of you are interested in these as a result of the many requests that I’ve had for them both at my exhibitions in Keswick and over the internet. The most popular seems to be images of Castle Crag in Borrowdale and Haystacks above Buttermere (where Wainwright’s ashes were scattered). You’ll find both of these in this gallery along with many others. This is another gallery that will be changing often as I still need to get images of some of the walks around Pillar and High Street. I’ve added them to my ‘to do’ list and will get round to it as soon as the conditions are right and I can escape the back garden which is currently undergoing long overdue renovations.
Lakeland Panoramics
People who visit my exhibitions at Keswick are constantly asking for larger and larger images. Maybe it’s something to do with the neutral decorating schemes that all the Make-over TV Show pundits keep advocating that are so perfect to showcase such a large image. Or maybe it’s because I’ve noticed how people like to spend ages pouring over one of my panoramic canvases tracing out walks that they have done or, in the case of the locals, picking out their houses. (The latter is a great must-have selling point). Anyway, panoramic images have greatly increased in popularity over the last couple of years. I normally mount my camera on a tripod and take two or three images which are then ‘stitched’ together using the impressive software in Photoshop. Sometimes however, I will simply take a single image with the sole purpose of cropping it into a panoramic format. It just needs planning really and an eye for the finished result.
Worldwide
These are images taken whilst on family holidays. Being keen fell walkers, we normally try to plan our main annual holiday to somewhere where we can enjoy the outdoors. Recently, we have visited British Columbia and Alberta in Canada, Samoens and Chamonix in France, Villars Gryon in Switzerland and Spoleto in Italy. Each of these places was definitely what you would call ‘a photographer’s paradise’, especially those which lay alongside the Icefields Parkway in British Columbia. A little nearer to home, we recently visited Northumberland as I had always wanted to photograph some of the famous castles which lie along the coast and to take a boat out to Farne Island to see the birds and seals. This summer we are to re-visit the west coast of Mallorca, another great destination for walkers if not a little too hot! The coast line there is very dramatic and the scenery coupled with the great weather is most conducive to great photography. If I can drag myself away from the pool, I should get some great images!