RGI

 

David M Martin RSW RGI

 

Born:

Glasgow, 1922

Date of RGI Election:

1981

Other memberships:

RSW 1961, Honorary member SSA (elected 1969)

 

Education:

Studied GSA 1940-42; R.A.F. 1942-46. Resumed art school after the war. Finished in 1948 & went to Jordanhill teacher’s training college. Commenced teaching in 1949.

 

Profile:

Married in 1952 & lived & worked in Eaglesham ever since. Painted regularly all through teaching career & exhibited regularly at the major Scottish annual exhibitions. Painting subjects are mainly landscape & still life. In landscape I try to extract rhythmic lines & lactated shapes from what is seen. These are sometimes echoed in other parts of the picture. The interpretation is not, therefore, totally visual – the painting becomes an equivalent to what is seen & takes on its own reality as it progresses. It is a process of development tied up with the act of painting – an exploration of shapes & movement, derived from visual sources. The painting of still life is also exploratory in that objects are rarely ‘set up’ in the conventional manner, the composition developing through knowledge of the objects & how I want to use them.

 

Awards and Membership:

1991 Member Scottish Artists and Artist Craftsmen, 1993 Elected Honorary Member of Society of Scottish Artists; 1974 Robert Colquhoun Memorial Prize; 1981 Friends of Stirling Art Gallery; 1984 May Marshall Brown Award, RSW; 1985 EIS Purchase Award, SSA; 1988 Prize-winner, Hamilton Museum Exhibition; 1990 & 93 Prize-winner, Laing Exhibition; 1990 The Mabel Mackinley Award, RGI; 1995 David Cargill Award, RGI.

 

Collections:

The Scottish Arts Council; Scottish Television; City of Edinburgh Art Collection; Edinburgh Corporation; Robert Fleming & Company; East Kilbride Town Council; Education Authorities of Edinburgh, Argyll, Dunbartonshire, Lanarkshire; the Dick Institute, Kilmarnock; Clydesdale Bank; Warburg Asset Management; Credit Lyonnais, London; The Earl of Moray; Dr. T. Shimizu; Lord Macfarlane of Bearsden; Lord Goold; Linklater & Paines, London.