Martin Ward

Painter and teacher born in Bexley, Kent. Studied at Bromley College of Art and Slade School of Fine Art. Teaching posts included Central School of Art and Middlesex Polytechnic.  Showed at Young Contemporaries exhibition, Tate Gallery and many others. 

The beauty and mystery of abstract art lies in its extraordinary power to act directly on our senses and express ideas and feelings not communicable in words.

It can be appreciated in the same way as music - a purely sensory language.

In my early teens I became fascinated by abstract art.

As a student at the Slade my interest deepened and I made my first successful paintings and drawings.

Later, after making a series of large charcoal drawings in London, I moved home and studio to south-west France where the proximity of prehistoric art and the colour and texture of the physical environment became a major source of inspiration.

Blue Minton

Gold Minton


Inscape 1


Inscape 3

Paths, fields and Shadows 18

Paths, fields and Shadows 20

Streetfrieze 21
 
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