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!
Best Selling Images
These are my best selling images. Whilst they represent only a small percentage of my portfolio, the rest of which you can find in the Shop, they consistently prove to be the most popular. It’s a list of images that has been put together from sales at exhibitions, galleries and more recently over the internet. Some recent images enter the list and others become less popular but, like the scenery it represents, the majority of these never change. There will always be those favourite images that bring back so many memories to people whilst they are ‘in exile’ from the Lakes either at home or at work.
Please take some time to browse the gallery they are not in any particular order 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!
Favourite Lakeland Walks
I have introduced this gallery to group together images that you’ll find on some of my favourite walks. I'm sure that some of them will be your favourites too and it's nice to have reminders of them on the wall. 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 & Scottish 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.
Scotland 2009
These images were taken on two visits made to Scotland in October and December 2008. The weather on Skye in October left much to be desired but the weather in Glen Coe in December was spectacular. I've never seen light or conditions like it. It was a real thrill to be there amongst such stunning scenery at such a time.
Scotland - Argyll & Bute
Argyll & Bute has some wonderful mountains, fantastic seascapes and a glorious coastline, not to mention idyllic islands and all within a short drive from Glasgow. We visited in February 2010 when the weather was glorious. Clear bue skies, not a breath of wind and a dusting of snow on the mountains. All in all perfect weather for photography.