biography
Doug Martin picked up a paint brush for the first time in the summer of 2003, and hasn't looked back since.
After nearly 30 years as a fine art photographer, the transition to this new medium is difficult, but rewarding. "I can't believe it took me this long to try my hand at painting, but now I'm completely hooked!" After working with all the technological aspects of photography for so many years Doug appreciates "the direct and organic connection the brush gives me in my painting". His passion and obsession for painting has taken on a new intensity of discovery long since lost in his photography.
Doug studies his love of oil painting at the Art Students League of Denver, where he has the good fortune to study with Mark Daily, Ron Hicks, Kevin Weckbach, Doug Dawson and Kim English. His most consistent artistic insight and critique comes from frequent and invaluable discussions with his friend and mentor Dan Beck. He has participated in plein air painting workshops with Ralph Oberg, Matt Smith, Tim Deibler and Ken Backhaus. Studying with these accomplished artists is helping Doug develop his skills and his own personal style.
Doug's paintings are his attempts to express his own reactions to the intensity, subtlety and wonders of our amazing world. "If I can bring enough of the "feeling" of a place to my viewers they can, in their mind, fill in those details that impressionistic painting leaves open to individual interpretation. And it's just those details that personalize a piece of art and allow each viewer to participate in "finishing" the piece thus making their experience with the painting unique."
When Doug isn't wandering around the country on painting trips in his "home away from home" he lives with his wife and son in Centennial, Colorado.
on location
...at Sprague Lake for Estes Park Plein Air event
...with Susiehyer at Bear Lake
...overlooking Rabbit Island, HI
...Big Sur in the sunshine, woo hoo!!!
...in the fog below Carmel
..."home away from home" in Monument Valley
...at Makapu Point, Oahu
...at Julia Pfiefer Burns in CA