He sites the influence of many great landscape painters in his work particularly Corot, Seago, Brown, Constable and Ruisdael - for as he says, ‘although I am self taught these artists showed me how to see.’

’Most people consider my work to be traditional rather than contemporary - by which they usually mean abstract, ‘ he adds, ‘ In fact all painting is fundamentally abstracton; I merely choose to draw the line earlier than Rothko but a little later than Constable.’

Martin has won several awards for his luminous depictions of the Norfolk skies and brooding marshlands, and works exclusively in oils, because,’they have the technical potential to capture the light here through scumbles of broken colour and transluscent glazes.’