Author Archives: vivmartin1

About vivmartin1

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

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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The woodcut that went wrong and then right

Posted on August 14, 2015

You might remember that I finished a woodcut of daffodils recently. The idea came from seeing a field of early daffodils in Cornwall in February, with a grey and misty St Michael’s Mount appearing to float behind the drift of … Continue reading →

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Getting Focused

Posted on July 25, 2015

My art ideas come so directly from my experience that I sometimes find it very difficult to focus on one project when something else throws up possibilities. We’ve been in France for the last two weeks, Brittany and right by … Continue reading →

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