Martin Decent: Solo Show3 November - 31 November 2007 |
Martin Decent
Martin Decent has painted all of his life and has explored numerous styles and genres, from marine painting (he is an exhibitor at the Royal Society of Marine Artists) to a current and deeply personal abstract expressionism. His prolific breadth of expertise and interest is illustrated throughout his career, from exhibiting at the Royal Academy Summer Show to writing a definitive technique of gouache painting. A sense of physical energy and a sophisticated language of signs and symbols is apparent in all of his paintings, whether they are concerned with the depiction of realism – grit stone cliffs, light across the Hope Valley – or with the development of his personal language