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Martin Davis Flying The Flag, 2022 Acrylic and Gesso on Paper Signed verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) About Martin Davis is an ex-firefighter turned artist. After university he spent more than 30 years in the fire & rescue service, during which time he found painting was a perfect antidote to the operational stresses of his working life. He committed himself fully to his art in 2008 after retirement and has spent the last 14 years finding his distinctive artistic voice. Martin is by admission an instinctive artist. Education He graduated from the University of Birmingham in 1976 (2.1 Economics) but in terms of art he is almost wholly self-trained, his only formal qualification being an Art GCE "O" level from his schooldays. Even so his artwork is bought by private collectors around the world and he has secured gallery space throughout the UK as well as in his native Derbyshire where he works from his home studio in Swanwick. Select Exhibitions/Awards Notable events: "Looking to the stars" Group Exhibition, Hornshaw Gallery, Brick Lane Gallery Annexe, Sclater Street, London 2016 Midlands Open Art Exhibition 2016, Tarpey Gallery, Castle Donington, Derbys Pentrich Revolution Bicentenary Group Exhibition 2017, various locations throughout the year Derbyshire/Nottinghamshire Great Sheffield Art Show 2017 & 2019, Open exhibition, Millennium Gallery, Sheffield. Summer/Autumn & Winter Exhibitions, D31 Art Gallery, Doncaster, 2021 Contemporary Portraits, Fronteer Gallery, Sheffield, 2021 Royal Cambrian Academy of Art Open Exhibition, Conwy, 2022 Salon Contemporary Arts 2022, Museum of Making, Derby 2022 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2022, London, Flux virtual Summer Exhibition 2022, Gallery Representation Salon Contemporary Arts, Derby Leabrooks Arts Complex, Leabrooks, Derbys Courtney Gallery, Ashbourne Derbys Hornshaw Gallery, London Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork "Flying the Flag" is a good example of my figurative art as it is inspired by light, colour and a certain feeling in the composition which is almost wistful and surreal. My compositions are often associated with distant memories from childhood, here of hazy summers and the play of light and shadows. "Work-life balance dice" I guess is a still life, but a rapidly executed one. Much of my inspiration comes from words and phrases and modern concepts. I love to use the play of words against an image when on suggests the other, even out of it's usual context. Language and visual art are natural bedfellows. Message from Art On A Postcard: Please do not bid if you intend to sell on the artwork. All artworks have been generously donated by the artists to raise money for The Hepatitis C Trust and when work is sold on the secondary market, it damages our relationship with the artist and prevents us from fundraising