Jean B Martin RSW
Garden in Summer
Mixed Media
Jean Martin was born in Glasgow and studied Drawing and Painting at Glasgow School of Art from 1964 -68.
While there, Jean won a scholarship to Hospitalfield School of Art and a number of awards including the final year drawing prize. Jean then went on to do a postgraduate teacher training at Aberdeen, gaining distinctions in teaching practice and academic studies and taught in secondary schools for a number of years.
While bringing up her children (both artists now!), Jean taught part-time in Forgan Art Centre in Newport on Tay - as her children grew older Jean was able to devote more time to painting and spent many years working in pure watercolour - loving the delicacy and vibrancy of that medium.
Jean then started to explore mixed media, and now, within her paintings, plays the brilliancy and delicacy of watercolour against the surface texture of acrylic and collage.
Jean's painting is a reaction to observation, whether it is within still life or landscape.
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