Harry Martin

B. 1993, Sydney, Australia 
Lives and Works in London, England. 


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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

Read Exhibition Essay, Veiled Expanse, 2024

Read Exhibition Essay, Scenes from the Downs, 2025

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

 
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