Martin Davis

Martin Davis is an ex-firefighter turned painter who has worked as a freelance visual artist since his retirement from the Fire Service. An artist really all his life he only turned fully to painting in 2008 after leaving the fire service.

Martin is a versatile, instinctive artist working in a traditional way but producing contemporary images. He is almost wholly self-taught but has sold his work to private collectors around the world and has secured coveted gallery space for his work in local Derbyshire/Nottinghamshire galleries.

As an artist he pours almost all his time & energy into his painting but welcomes any approach about exhibiting or commissioning work too.

Martin’s compulsion to produce art is driven by his love of form and an emotional response to colour, the effects of light and atmosphere, so his work can be quite wide ranging. It includes portraits, abstract and semi-abstract work, figurative art as well as landscape.