SELECTED BIOGRAPHY
Born 1922.
1934-39 Educated Govan High School.
1940-42 Glasgow School of Art.
1942-46 RAF instrument mechanic in Trichinopoly, Southern India.
1946 Instructor in art under the Forces Educational and Vocational Training Scheme.
1946-48 Glasgow School of Art under David Donaldson.
Meets the painter Isobel Smith at Glasgow School of Art.
1948-9 Jordanhill Teacher Training College.
1949-59 Studied design at evening classes with Robert Stewart, GSA.
1949 Elected Professional Member SSA.
1952 Marries Isobel Smith. Moves to Eaglesham.
1956 Design for Fabric selected by Arts Council for inclusion in an exhibition in the Design Centre, Glasgow, Printed by Gayonne Fabrics Ltd.
1959 Elected member of Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts.
1961 Elected Member of Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour.
1973-83 Principal Teacher of Art, Hamilton Grammar School.
Elected Member of Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts.
1983 Retires from teaching.
1986 Meets Marc Chagall in Glasgow.
1991 Member SAAC.
1993 Elected Honorary Member of Society of Scottish Artists.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1965 Stone Gallery, Newcastle.
1979 Strathclyde University.
1983 Fair Maids Gallery, Perth.
1984 Gallery 22, Cupar, Fife.
1985/90 Torrance Gallery.
1991 Kingfisher Gallery.
1992 Thackeray Gallery, London.
1994 Thackeray Gallery, London.
Roger Billcliffe Fine Art.
1995 John Martin Gallery, London.
The Fosse Gallery.
1997 John Martin Gallery, London.
1998 Roger Billcliffe Fine Art.
1999 Perth Museum and Art Gallery, David Martin Paintings
1999 John Martin Gallery, London.
2000 John Martin Gallery, London.
2001 Roger Billcliffe Fine Art.
2002 John Martin Gallery, ‘Eightieth Birthday Exhibition’.
2003 John Martin Chelsea, ‘Landscapes’.
2004 John Martin Gallery, ‘David Martin, Rhythm and Hues’
Roger Billcliffe Fine Art.
2005 Lemon Street Gallery, Truro, ‘New Work’.
John Martin Gallery, London.
Roger Billcliffe Fine Art.
2006 John Martin Gallery, London.
2007 Roger Billcliffe Fine Art
Lemon Street Gallery, Truro.
2009 Lemon Street Gallery, Truro.
2011 Lemon Street Gallery, Truro, ‘Thoughts on Landscape and Still Life’.
2012 John Martin, London.
2013 Lemon Street Gallery, Truro, ‘David Martin at 90’.
2015 Lemon Street Gallery, Truro, ‘Tactile Space’.
2017 Lemon Street Gallery, Truro, ‘Rhythm and Harmony’.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
David Martin has exhibited annually since 1948 at the Royal Scottish Academy and the Royal Glasgow Institute. He has also exhibited at the Royal Academy; The Mall Galleries; Bath Contemporary Art Fair; William Hardie Gallery; Thackeray Gallery; Torrance Gallery; ’41 Gallery; The Shore Gallery, Leith; The Purple Gallery, Birmingham; The Gatehouse Gallery, Glasgow; Glasgow Art Club; Smithy Gallery, Blanefield; Roger Billcliffe Fine Art; The Macauley Gallery; The Hunting Art Prize exhibition 1996; Glasgow Art Fair; Singer Friedlander; the 20th Century British Art Fair; Albany Gallery; Edgar Modern Gallery, Bath; Lemon Street Gallery, Truro; Richmond Hill Gallery, London; Everard Reid Gallery, Johannesburg; Red Rag Gallery; Compass Gallery; Smith Gallery, Dunblane; Lalique, Madison Avenue, New York; and the Chelsea Gallery, Palo Alto, California. With John Martin he has participated in exhibitions at The Miami Art Fair 1996; ‘On a Grand Scale’ 1997; ‘Fifty and One’ 1997; ‘Art International’, New York, 1998,; various Christmas Shows, 1998; the London Contemporary Art Fair, 1995-99; ‘Discerning Eye’ at the Mall Galleries, London 2000; ‘Connections’, 2000, for members and guests of the RSA, annually at Lemon Street Gallery, Truro since 1999 in both Christmas and summer mixed shows, and with them at the London Art Fair.