Ceramicist

Martin is a figurative ceramic artist who explores the relation between materiality, metaphorical content of clay and the human figure. He has exhibited in the Ghosts in Armour exhibition (2010 – 2014) in the European Parliament, Bilbao in Spain, in the UK and USA (Santa Fe).

He was also on Spanish T.V. and a featured artist in the book ‘Ghosts in Armour’ (an international collaboration between twenty-one artists exploring cultural change due to the closure of traditional industry in working class communities and the loss of long held social roles and identities.

He has had many art commissions for both public and private patrons including a commission by the Seren Group for a commemorative plaque that was unveiled by the former Welsh Assembly leader Rhodri Morgan.

Martin’s work seeks to express the material metaphors that exist between clay and the human form and allow his figurative forms to live.

Talking about his work and philosophy, he says that “We all have within us what the Portuguese call ‘Saudade’, translated as an inexplicable longing, an unnamed and enigmatic yearning of the soul. This feeling lies within the realms of inspiration and imagination. Ultimately, through the territories of material expression, the quietness of gesture and form, and the aesthetics of process”