Don Martin
Icelandic painter from Canada
I was born in Hnausa,
Manitoba in 1932 to Gudrun (nee Sigmundson) and Gunnlaugur
Sigurdur Martin.
Icelandic was my first language until I went to school in the
one room school at Hnausa. All through my school years I was
always busy doodling and drawing when I should have been paying
attention. In High School I had my first taste of painting with
a paint by number oil painting set.
During the years that my children were growing up, I did the
occasional pen and ink drawing, but did not paint again until
1982 when I opened Harbour Hobbies at Gimli. I started stocking
paints, canvases, brushes, etc., and on one cold day in that
first winter when I had no customers I decided to try some
painting. I have been at it ever since!
I am mostly self taught, although as a member of the Gimli Art
Club I have attended workshops and have attended three sessions
of the Arts West painting week held at the Riding Mountain
Conference Center at Clear Lake. Shortly after I started
painting, I sold my first canvas, and over the years I have sold
paintings to visitors from all parts of the world.
I have received numerous Honorable Mention awards from the
Icelandic Festival Art Show. I have visited Iceland in 1983,
1998 and in 2001, and I can recall vividly the feeling that I
had the very first time I set foot on Icelandic soil, I felt as
if I was Home at last.
In the summer of 2001 I was invited to have a solo exhibition at
the Icelandic Emigration Center in Hofsos, Iceland. This was my
first solo exhibition and a long-held dream come true. The
exhibit was on for three weeks and was very well received by the
local population as well as summer tourists and was 70% sold
out.
For the last ten years I have taught the beginners acrylic class
at the Gimli Art Club and I am currently serving as Chairperson
of the Gimli Public Art Gallery Committee. The mandate of this
Committee is to operate the local Gallery and to promote the
appreciation of visual arts in our community.
Ofaerufoss
(60X90 cm)
Acrylic on canvas,
framed.
Don Martin
SOLD
Hay meadow (35X76
cm)
Acrylic on canvas,
framed.
Don Martin
37.000 ISK
Lonely granary (25X50
cm)
Acrylic on canvas,
framed.
Don Martin
20.000 ISK
North of Gimli (30X70
cm)
Acrylic on canvas,
framed.
Don Martin
20.000 ISK
Ferjuhamar (45X60
cm)
Acrylic on canvas,
framed.
Don Martin
37.000 ISK
Valley of Colour (30X60 cm)
Acrylic on canvas.
Don Martin
SOLD
Arctic Monarchs (30X60 cm)
Acrylic on canvas.
Don Martin
SOLD
Breakup (30X60 cm)
Acrylic on canvas.
Don Martin
SOLD
Burfell, Iceland (23X40 cm)
Acrylic on canvas.
Don Martin
SOLD
Kathie's Cottage (30X60 cm)
Acrylic on Canvas,
framed.
Don Martin
32.000 ISK
Myvatn (23X30 cm)
Acrylic on Canvas.
Don Martin
SOLD
Snaefellsnes, Iceland (30X24 cm)
Acrylic on Canvas
Don Martin
SOLD
The Crossing, Gimli (30X60 cm)
Acrylic on Canvas.
Don Martin
SOLD
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