Martin Walsh

Martin Walsh, Martin Walsh
Riding thru the glen I like taking photos and making them into paintings, Add a touch of fantasy and come up with a print that's better than the painting, Coloured Ink and Coloured paper.Making up a picture that is graphic and positioning the pictures so they can be blown up and still look like a piece of art. You can juxtapose the pieces like a jigsaw and it tells a story which you can read like playing with jigsaw pieces. You put the pieces like they are meant to be together. I like sitting down and doing landscapes at the desk. Travelling is fun, it's like travelling. Tempera is a medium that is soft and solid My best art is made using scissors. I make fine cuts and sometimes you can't see the join. I studied at Julian Ashton for a year when I was 10, my teacher told all the other students after a short while that they could go home he'd just teach me Living in London with Robert Hughes, helping his babysitter, I was doing collage and he did say your artwork is the best I've ever seen