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Natalie Cherilyn Francis

www.nataliemartin.co.uk www.cherilynmartin.com www.francismartin.co.uk

info@nataliemartin.co.uk info@cherilynmartin.com info@francismartin.co.uk

Brighton Nijmegen Bristol
UK NL UK

There must be something in the genes that has produced three accomplished artists in the same family. Members of the Martin family have produced work that explores the themes and emotions of everyday life through a variety of media.

Cherilyn has been recognised as an established artist in the textile genre for many years. Her brother Francis has spent most of his working life in commercial design and computer graphics, but is now painting full time while his daughter Natalie, having graduated from the University of Brighton three years ago, has explored conceptual sculpture and mixed media installation before finding success as a painter.

Cherilyn Martin is a renowned international artist based in The Netherlands who over the past thirty-five years has used the textile medium to portray her affinity with antiquity and tactile remnants of the past. She has developed an individual style through combining a passion for exploring the use of stitch with her interest in the quilted surface. More recently her interest in paper and mixed-media has led to a body of work in which the use of embellishment is reduced to a minimum, in order to maximize the impact of the surface.

Natalie Martin’s work explores the idea of urban decay and domestic neglect as sources of beauty and reverence expressed as acrylic on canvas paintings. She has three key areas of interest: the idea of ‘journey’; dark, neglected corners of domestic spaces; and architectural features that make a great contribution to the sense of a place despite their neglected state. With all these images she invites a re-examination of the apparent banality of everyday architecture, invoking a celebration of the ordinary and to bringing to light some of the unsung architectural heroes of our changing urban landscape.

Francis Martin works today primarily in oils to produce portraits that sympathetically captures the essence of ordinary people and children. His straightforward approach to portraiture is refreshing and he uses paint and colour to capture, not only a likeness of the sitter, but a glimpse of their personality and lives at a precise moment in time. Portraits are frank and unembellished and, like Natalie, he highlights and celebrates the ordinary.

For the first time this talented trio of Martins are looking to exhibit together to demonstrate, not only their own unique talents but to compliment their individual works with the energy produced by the combination of all three.

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