Richard Martin
Richard Martin’s work combines an architectural love of geometry, sample, and texture with a painter’s sensitivity to the artistic artwork of implementing aesthetic. Richard evokes contributors along with his images and visible design workshops, excursions, and seminars world wide.
“My images is a celebration of the visible world. It originates straight from the guts, trustworthy and direct. Impressed by color, texture and lightweight, I make pictures to precise emotions surrounding my experiences, looking for visible equivalents to these emotions.”
Michéla Griffith
In 2012 I paused by my native river and every little thing modified. I’ve moved away from what many anticipate pictures to be: my photos deconstruct the literal and reimagine the subjective, reflecting the curiosity that water has impressed in my apply. Water has been my conduit: it has sharpened my imaginative and prescient, given me permission to experiment and continues to introduce me to new methods of seeing.
Coincidentally, Matt Payne and I each had Richard Martin on our lists earlier this yr. I deferred to Matt, who included Richard in his ‘Portrait of a Photographer’ sequence. Now we’re again to finish our Featured Photographer interview with Richard, who’s each prolific and expressive within the private work that he produces, and a passionate trainer of images.
Richard is an advocate of ‘play’ and of holding an open thoughts; course of is essential, and tools is just a way to an finish. Typically photographing near dwelling, Richard’s photos regularly characteristic circulate, whether or not within the type of water or flowers.
Would you want to begin by telling readers slightly about your self – the place you grew up, what your early pursuits have been, and what that led you to do?
I used to be born in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, positioned on the jap finish of Lake Ontario in the beginning of the St. Lawrence River. Kingston is located halfway between Toronto, Ontario, and Montreal, Quebec, near the Thousand Islands area to the east, the place I spent a lot of my youth.
From a really younger age, I had a powerful curiosity within the visible arts, significantly drawing. I additionally spent appreciable time exploring the pure world throughout my earlier years.
Within the late seventies, in the beginning of my profession as an Architectural Technologist, I grew to become critically all in favour of images, discovering the digicam might act as a device for expressing genuinely private emotions. The very first yr, I bought an entire darkroom setup and labored with each color slides (transparency) and black and white movie. I used to be hooked.
