£1,375
Contemporary & Post-War Art | 595
Auction: 16 April 2020 at 12:00 BST
Signed, oil on canvas
Biography: David McLeod Martin is a Scottish artist, best known for his contemporary paintings of Scottish landscapes and still life work, in both oil and watercolour.
Martin was born in Glasgow in 1922 and studied at Glasgow School of Art from 1940-42. He left to serve with the RAF in India from 1942-46, but promptly returned to the GSA, where he studied under David Donaldson and met his future wife, the painter Isobel Smith. After graduating from Glasgow School of Art in 1948 he pursued a career in teaching.
In 1959, Martin was elected a member of the Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts, followed by the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour in 1961. He is also an elected member of the Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts.
Martin was Principle teacher of Art at Hamilton Grammar School from 1973 until his retirement in 1983. Since his retirement he has concentrated full time on his painting.
Martin's work is held in many major Scottish collections including The Arts Council of Scotland, The City of Edinburgh Art Collection, and Perth Museum and Art Gallery, which held a major retrospective of his work in 1999.