Luella Martin

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Left: Allotments 2, oil on canvas, 50 x 40

Right:The New Greenhouse, oil on canvas 30 x 50 cm

I am loving the paintings of Luella Martin, an English painter living and working in Brighton. What looks like a naive childlike perspective on the natural world is, in fact, the result of putting together many glimpses of different parts of the same landscape. As one would do on a walk. She works it all together from memory, quick sketches and a photo or two, completing the final pieces in a variety of media, from oils and acrylics to watercolour and prints.

Left: Spring, a small study in oil on canvas 18 x 24 cm

Right: Sleeping Cat, acrylic on paper, 20 x 29 cm

Village House by the river, Watercolour on paper, 6 x 6 inches