Martin trained at the Royal College of Art where he was awarded the Royal College Drawing Prize and Madame Tussauds Prize for Figurative Art. A member of The Royal Society of Portrait Painters, notable portraits include theoretical physicist and broadcaster Professor Jim Al-Khalili OBE for the British Humanist Association and singer and songwriter Laura Mvula. Martin recently returned from the US after being awarded Arts Council funding to paint the Amish community.

Membership
The Royal Society of Portrait Painters
Council Member, The Royal Society of Portrait Painters

Qualifications
Royal College of Art MA (1983 - 1986)
Exeter College of Art and Design BA (hons) Painting (Class 1) (1978 - 1981)

Awards and Prizes
Arts Council and British Council Artists' International Development Fund Award ‘Painting the Amish’ 2017
BP Travel Award Finalist 2016
Bulldog Portrait Bursary Finalist, Royal Society of Portrait Painters 2014
SSTAR Award Winner, Most Inspirational Teacher, Faculty of Arts, Plymouth University 2013
SSTAR Award Winner, Most Outstanding Support, Faculty of Arts, Plymouth University 2013
Janet Konstam Trust Travel and Research Award, Verrochio Arts Centre, Italy 1999
Folio Society 50th Anniversary Illustration Competition, Gulbenkian Hall, Royal College of Art 1997
Special Commendation South West Open 1990
Madame Tussaud's Prize for Figurative Art, Royal College of Art 1985
Royal College Drawing Prize 1985
Brian Robb Travel Scholarship, Italy 1984
Rupert Acott Prize for Figure Painting, Exeter College of Art and Design 1981

Group Exhibitions
Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London 2014 - 2022
BP Portrait Award Finalist 2016
The Folio Society, Gulbenkian Hall, Royal College of Art, London
'9X', The Tannery, London
South West Open, Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery
'Compendia', Spacex Gallery, Exeter
'Goodwill',  Spacex Gallery, Exeter
'Doobraak', Illustration from the Royal College of Art, The Berlage, Amsterdam
'Breakthrough', Exhibition 25 years of Illustration, Royal College of Art, London
Blackheath Gallery, London 

Solo Exhibitions
Gulbenkian Hall, Royal College of Art, London
Spacex Gallery, Exeter
Honiton Arts Festival, Honiton
The Gardner Centre, University of Sussex, Brighton
The Brewhouse Gallery, Taunton 

Notable Portraits
Physicist and broadcaster Professor Jim Al-Khalili OBE for the British Humanist Association
Singer and songwriter Laura Mvula

Employment
Lecturer Fine Art Painting (0.2), Plymouth University (2007 - )  
Lecturer Life Drawing (0.2), Plymouth University (2004 -) 
Visiting Lecturer Illustration Life drawing, Plymouth University (2006 -2009) 
Consultant, fresco painting, Organic Farm Arts Project, Ide (2006) 
Member of Art Process Research Group (1998 - 2003) 
Consultant, fresco painting commissioned by the Council of Tuscania, Italy (1995 - 1997)
Lecturer Life Drawing and Fine Art, North Devon College (1988 - 1991) 
Archeological Illustrator, North Devon Museum (1987 - 1988)

Current Responsibilities
Lecturer and Module Leader, Fine Art Painting, BA Stage 1
Lecturer and Tutor, Fine Art, BA, Stage 2 and 3
Lecturer Life Drawing, Fine Art BA and MA programmes

Visiting Lecturer
Salcombe Arts (2015 - 2022)
Schumacher College, MA Ecological Design Thinking programme, collaboration with Dartmoor Prison (2019)
Dartmoor Arts (2015)

Talks
National Portrait Gallery, London, BP Portrait Award Exhibition (2016)