Martin was born in Otley 1968 where he enjoyed his childhood in the beautiful Yorkshire Dales. Always liking the outdoors he traveled with his parents around the counrty taking in many walks and cycling in the counryside. His main hobby changed at the age of 16 when he started racing motor cycles with some sucsess winning over 100 races and 4 championships over the space of the next 16 years. Painting came in the middle of racing teaching himself as he went along and soon found that he's not too bad at this painting lark. Enjoys painting many different things seascapes, portraits, landscapes, any thing he sees on his travels up and down the country using oil, water colour and acrylics, loves to paint his wife and two children at different stages of there lives, Martin has come accross many people saying if only they could paint, well this is why he is now starting to help would be artists create thier own paintings easily without all the fancy sayings, words and technical jargon, after all he's a straight talking Yorkshireman that tells it how it is. Reet n proppa