Harry Martin
B. 1993, Sydney, Australia
Lives and Works in London, England.
Harry Martin is a contemporary painter based in London. Having grown up in the Southern Highlands in Australia and now based in London, Martin is drawn to the viscerally tonal and clean atmospheric landscapes. Martin often uses a dim diffused light to encompass the drama and the spirit of his surroundings. Martin feels simplicity is powerful and that a lot can be said with the subtlety of a mark. Martin’s paintings always portray expanse and express a kind of spiritual connection with the natural landscape. The soul of the place is integral to the notion of Romanticism, to look out over the hills and towards the horizon, to imagine all the possibilities held in the lands that he paints.
Martin’s surfaces are heavily worked and show his ability to create movement and control light. His often rugged surfaces are honest and appropriate interpretations of the hillsides that he paints. Martin aims to convey his scenes in a reduced and stripped back way. He is often depicting very active and large skies melding into horizons and attention is given to cloudscapes and mist. These amorphous depictions blend into rolling hills, a gully or dam, hedgerows and grassy fields. Martin with a soft and muted palette is able to set a calming space for the viewer to settle into.
Martin has held several successful exhibitions in Australia and overseas with his works in private collections both within Australia and abroad.
Read Exhibition Essay, The Fading Light, 2023
Harry Martin, The Downs before the Rain, 2025, acrylic on linen, 160 x 240 cm
Harry Martin, Newlands Corner I, 2025, acrylic on linen, 160 x 160 cm
Harry Martin, Newlands Corner II, 2025, acrylic on linen, 160 x 160 cm
Harry Martin, Before the Hastings Rain, 2025, acrylic on linen, 120 x 180 cm
Harry Martin, Box Hill Shrub, 2025, acrylic on linen, 150 x 120 cm
Harry Martin, Shrub Amongst the Veiled Horizon, 2025, acrylic on linen, 100 x 100 cm
Harry Martin, Hastings Flock, 2025, acrylic on linen, 30 x 45 cm
Harry Martin, Cornish Coast Study, 2025, acrylic on linen, 35 x 35 cm
Harry Martin, South Downs View I, 2025, Acrylic on Linen, 100 x 150 cm
Harry Martin, View over the Catchment, 2025, Acrylic on Linen, 90 x 120 cm
Harry Martin, South Downs View II, 2025, Acrylic on Linen, 90 x 120 cm
Harry Martin, Box Hill View, 2025, Acrylic on Linen, 75 x 75 cm
Harry Martin, Wiltshire Downs View, 2025, Acrylic on Linen, 75 x 75 cm
Harry Martin, View Across The Down, 2025, Acrylic on Linen, 41 x 51 cm
Harry Martin, Wiltshire Vista I, 2025, Acrylic on Linen, 35 x 35 cm
Harry Martin, Wiltshire Vista II, 2025, Acrylic on Linen, 35 x 35 cm
Harry Martin, South Downs Shrub, 2025, Acrylic on Linen, 25 x 35 cm
Harry Martin, South Downs Shrub, 2025, Acrylic on Linen, 25 x 35 cm
Harry Martin, Scenes from the Downs, 2025, Exhibition views by Mim Stirling
Harry Martin, View across the Downs, 2024, acrylic on linen, 160 x 240cm
Harry Martin, North Downs Landscape #4, 2023, acrylic on linen, 100 x 150cm
Harry Martin, Box Hill View I, 2024, acrylic on linen, 60 x 90cm
Harry Martin, View Across the Down II, 2024, acrylic on linen, 75 x 75cm
Harry Martin, Veiled Expanse, 2024. Exhibition views by Ashley Mackevicius
Harry Martin, Diffused Light over the South Downs, 2023, acrylic on linen, 160 x 240cm
Harry Martin, View to the Dam, 2023, acrylic on linen, 160 x 160cm
Harry Martin, Remembered Landscape, 2023, acrylic on linen, 160 x 160cm
Harry Martin, The Fading Light, 2023, Exhibition views, photography by Ashley Mackevicius
Harry Martin, Highland Drop Off, 2023, acrylic on linen, 120 x 100cm
Harry Martin, View to the Catchment, 2023, acrylic on linen, 120 x 100cm
Harry Martin, Hillside Vista II, 2023, acrylic on linen, 120 x 150cm
Harry Martin, Remembered Landscape, 2023, acrylic on linen, 100 x 150cm
Harry Martin, The Fading Light, 2023, Exhibition views, photography by Ashley Mackevicius
Harry Martin, Highland Vista, 2023, acrylic on linen, 100 x 120cm
