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Philip Michael Martin is a British painter. Originally from Sheffield, Philip now lives in West London and paints full time after a career as a creative in advertising. Many of the disciplines and craft he employed in that career can be found in his current work: bold images that grab our attention; acute understanding of composition combined with a striking use of colour.

Each of Phil’s paintings is rendered in his signature style. Part abstract. Part figurative. Often a blend of both. All laid out in glorious technicolour. The works are almost always on canvas, sometimes on board. He works with many different layers of paint, glue, oil and resin to build texture that gives the work a delicious physicality when seen in the flesh.

"I sometimes start off with a complete idea of what the finished painting will look like, but most often the starting point might be a photograph I’ve seen or taken, or a random image, or a subject or a place that I think might be interesting as a part of a painting rather than the whole thing." Philip Michael Martin