Author Archives: vivmartin1

About vivmartin1

Viv is an artist and educator based on the south coast of England.

Exhibition at the Fish Factory

Posted on June 10, 2018

This year Paul and I are showing work at the Fish Factory in Brighton Road, Worthing for the Worthing Artists Open Houses trail (from June 16th – July 1st 2018, more info http://www.worthingartistsopenhouses.com). ‘Rock Pool’ is a carborundum print, the image … Continue reading →

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Tales of the riverbank

Posted on January 4, 2018

We spent last Christmas floating down the Danube. Last year I had made a series of prints from my drawings of the Rhine riverbanks, which used some of the reflections on windows and water as part of the image. This … Continue reading →

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Goodbye 2016

Posted on January 1, 2017

A New Year at last! In 2016 we had Christmas floating down the Rhine and instead of our usual morning champagne on Worthing beach, we drank a toast to all our relatives and friends in different corners of the world and shared … Continue reading →

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New Florence Prints

Posted on May 21, 2016

We’ve just spent a few weeks in Florence again, making monotypes in a printmaking workshop with Ron Pokrasso and a group of printmakers from the USA and other countries. I’ve returned with fifteen prints, some almost finished but many with … Continue reading →

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From Experience to Art

Posted on November 26, 2015

A while ago (May 2015) I posted some of the watercolours that I made in Greece in spring this year. I’d intended to leave some ‘digesting’ time before I tried to work from the ideas that emerged from that trip. There … Continue reading →

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