Martha's new collection brings together the domestic and outdoor spaces that have surrounded and inspired her as a working painter over recent months. In her crisply composed, colourist manner, her paintings reflect spring mornings at home with jugs of fresh tulips and bowls of lemons, captured alongside the linear forms and rich, seasonal colours of the West Cornwall landscape. Painted predominantly in oil on board, her interior compositions draw on a varied palette of warm pinks and reds, while her landscape works reflect the fresh greens and vivid blues of the Penwith peninsula in spring.
Inspired by the Cornish masters-Heron, Hepworth, Nicholson, and Scott-Martha's works immerse the viewer in an emotional dialect, born from a deep-rooted connection to the land where she grew up. Abstract in form, often with large, flat areas of colour, her work captures a raw and honest sense of the landscape, communicated through colour and expressive mark-making. Recently, her work has shifted to exploring the connection between exterior and interior space, informed by the way objects-vessels, vases of blooms, open books, and existing paintings-paired with the forms of the landscape beyond inspire paintings with a new spatial dynamism and form.