Harry Martin: 'The Fields to the Sea'

Jennings Kerr is pleased to present our fourth solo exhibition with Harry Martin. 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.