Martin Greenland

Elected to the Society 1999

1962 – Born – Marsden, Yorkshire.
1979 – 1981 Studied Nelson and Colne College (Foundation course)
1982 – 1985 Exeter College of Art, Awarded First Class Honours Degree in Fine Art (Painting)

“I think his painting is superb – the images a striking fusion of arresting myth and exquisite landscape – he gives great picture!”
Willy Russell

JOINT EXHIBITIONS
2013 Dutch Italianates, Mall Galleries, London
2011 i know a place, Flowers East, London
2011 Charter of the Forest, Usher Art Gallery and Collection, Lincoln
2012, Art Gallery at Rheged, Cumbria
2012 Flashback, 25 Years Anniversary Exhibition, Art Space Gallery, London
2010 Places of the Mind, Art Space Gallery, London
2010 Layers, John Moores Contemporary Painting Prize Show, Seongnam, South Korea
2010 Up-Front Open, Up-Front Gallery, Cumbria
2009 The Witherslack Group, Witherslack, Cumbria
2008 Winter Journey, Art Space Gallery, Islington, London
2008 Outside the Glass, Theatre By the Lake, Keswick, Cumbria
2008 Red Barn, Melkinthorpe, Cumbria
2008 The Witherslack Group, Cumbria
2007 Beaux Art, Bath
2007 The Lynn Painter Stainers, Painters Hall, London
2007 Daffodils, Rheged and Farfield Mill Farfield Mill, Sedbergh
2006 FIRST PRIZE WINNER John Moores 24 Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
2006 Up Front Gallery, Hutton in the Forest, Cumbria
2006 Finestra Gallery Kirkby Lonsdale Cumbria
2006 Red Barn, Penrith
2006 Meadowbank Barn, Curthwaite
2005 Finestra Gallery, Kirkby Lonsdale, Cumbria
2005 Meadowbank Barn, Curthwaite, Cumbria
2005 Red Barn Gallery, Melkinthorpe, Cumbria
2005 Up Front Gallery Hutton in the Forest Cumbria
2004 The Witherslack Group, Witherslack, Cumbria
2004 Pinfold Gallery, Bowness on Windermere, Cumbria
2004 Manchester Art Fair
2004 Meadowbank Barn, Curthwaite, Cumbria
2004 Finestra Gallery Kirkby Lonsdale, Cumbria
2003 Farfield Mill, Sedbergh, Cumbria
2003 Meadowbank Farm Stuidio, Curthwaite, Cumbria
2000 Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London PRIZE WINNER
1998 to present The Lake Artists Society Summer Exhibition, Grasmere
1997 Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London
1995-96 John Moores Liverpool Exhibition 19. Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
1993-94 John Moores Liverpool Exhibition 18. Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
1991-92 John Moores, Liverpool Exhibition 17. Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
1989-90 John Moores Liverpool Exhibition 16. Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
1987 Abbot Hall, Kendal
1985-86 Whitworth Young Contemporaries, Manchester

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2012 Inventions and Re-inventions, Corke Art Gallery, Liverpool
2011 Uncharted Land, Art Space Gallery, London
2010 New Fiction, Cornerstone Gallery, Liverpool Hope University, Liverpool
2009 Arrangements of Memory, Art Space Gallery, Islington, London
2008 Wall of Silence, Brantwood, Coniston, Cumbria
2008 Alexandra Gallery, University of Cumbria, Lancaster
2008 Signal Gallery, London
2008 11 Spitalfields Gallery, Spitalfields,London
2007 Farfield Mill, Sedbergh
2005 Ainscough Gallery, Liverpool
2003 Private Exhibition, Windermere
2002 Bruton Street Gallery, London
2001 Liverpool, Private Exhibition
2000 Piccadilly Gallery, Dover Street, London
1999 Huddersfield Art Gallery
1998 Ainscough Gallery, Liverpool
1997 Picadilly Gallery Cork Street, London
1996 Ainscough Gallery, Liverpool
1995 Lyth Gallery, Underbarrow, Kendal, Cumbria
1994 Lyth Gallery, Underbarrow, Kendal, Cumbria
1993 Low Crag, Crook, Kendal, Cumbria
1993 Merkmal Gallery, Liverpool
1992 Low Crag, Crook, Kendal, Cumbria
1988 Charlotte Mason College, Ambleside, Cumbria
1987 Gallery North, Kirkby Lonsdale, Cumbria

First prize winner of the John Moores, 24 – Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
Commissioned to produce a painting of the newly re-built Paternoster Square, next to St. Paul’s Cathedral, London, which was presented to The Lord Mayor of London, in November 2003 and which now hangs in The Mansion House
Awarded GCI Financial purchase prize at Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London in November 2000