This is especially true when it comes to artists and artwork which is part of the exhilarating field of urban and street art. There were some interesting shifts in the art market, many of the pieces by internationally renowned artists and new rising stars have exchanged ownership and the Widewalls team was closely watching every new development. Martin has shown her work regionally in both New York and SW Florida and has won several awards in juried exhibitions.As the end of 2014 is getting ever so closer, the art loving public can look back to months of exciting exhibitions, art fairs, special events and successful auctions. Since that time, she has dedicated herself to making art and works everyday in her studio. Subsequently, Martin opened Gallery 100 in Saratoga Springs, which she successfully ran for eight years until she moved to Naples, Florida in 2011. She taught art at Skidmore in early 1990s and then for 10 years at Green Mountain College in Vermont. Martin graduated from Skidmore College and received an MFA from the State University of New York at Albany.
She shows us the beauty of the nature we might lose in the hope that we to will fall in love and care.
Martin creates intricate drawings of intimate moments in the life of her subjects.
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Martin has also created a series on elephants and their young. In this exhibit we see our creatures – turtles and birds. Also incorporated into the encaustic paintings are my drawings, paintings, poetry and original transfer prints.” By scraping wax away, my process turns into an excavation, discovering colors, textures and images. I try to preserve what’s underneath while creating something new with each layer. My encaustic surfaces are labored and develop over time. “My medium of choice is encaustics,… which gives me the flexibility of discovery. She uses encaustics, the once archaic medium that gives her work a softness, juxtaposed with the crisp clear line of her drawings. Martin loves nature and loves to draw - this combination produces work that is an accurate and close-up depiction of creatures in their environment. This focus may have been reignighted by the Gulf Oil Spill of 2010, during which time Martin threw herself into making work that depicted the beauty of the coral reefs, turtles and fish that were and are still in danger. Desiring to bring awareness to their plight. The “fragility of nature,” Martin states is her constant theme. Florida transplant, Deborah Martin fell so in love with her new home’s flora and fauna that when she started to make art again, they became her inspiration.
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