Martin Cosgrove West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
I am a fine artist focussing on painting drawing and printing, with a particular enduring interest and fascination in colour. I find the Yorkshire Dales a particular inspiration. My main subjects are colourfield, landscape, still life and figurative.
I love to paint with oils, acrylic paints and inks and draw with charcoal and pencil. There is something very physical and intimate about these media for me. I also create prints using collagraphs, screen printing and etching. I occasionally use watercolour.
I aim to convey a sense of place or person in my artwork that does not represent pure visual imagery but a deeper feeling that I develop as I engage my subject matter. I paint from the heart using my eyes, sketches and photographs to inform my work.
My main artistic activity has been until recently to combine being an exhibition curator and oil painting in my private studio in Bradford, West Yorkshire. I am now focussing on my own work and no longer acting as a fine art exhibition curator other than within my own group of artists at Aire Valley Arts.
I run a life and portrait drawing group at Keighley Creative Space.
Artwork
Play of Light at Sunrise, Oil, 2017, £800
Seeing Red. Abstract in Red and Black No 1, Oil, 2020, £2500
Dreaming of Summer, Oil, 2021, £400
Cove, Oil, 2018, £800
Still life with apples pear peaches and jugs on a table, Oil, 2021, £250
Liquid Dance, Acrylic Ink, 2021, £300
Snow Scene, Oil, 2023, £400
Projects and exhibitions
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Tuesday Life and Portrait Drawing Group18/08/2023 — ongoing Keighley Creative, 3-7 Cooke Lane, Keighley, BD21 3PF Tuesday Life and Portrait Drawing Group I have been running a Tuesday afternoon all abilities life and portrait drawing group based in the Life Room at Keighley Creative since the beginning of October 2023. This is currently weekly but from August it will change to monthly life drawing... [Read more] |
Keighley Creative Space, Keighley | Details |
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The Big Screen01/09/2020 — ongoing As part of Not Just Hockney, I took part in the Big Screen showing of local artists at Centenary Square in 2020 and in 2022 |
Centenary Square, Bradford | Details |
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Member of Aire Valley Arts01/01/2019 — ongoing I am an active member of Aire Valley Arts based in the Bradford and Bingley area. We put on group exhibitions on a very regular basis, and have an annual exhibition at the Saltaire Festival. Website https://www.airevalleyarts.co.uk/ Recent Group Exhibitions with Aire Valley Arts: Bexley Wing, St James Hospital Leeds 2019 Saltaire... [Read more] |
Bradford | Details |
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Greeting Cards01/01/2019 — ongoing I am a keen nature photographer and use the images from my photography to create beautiful greeting cards. Most of them are birds. I keep them blank on the inside so that people can put in their own message. I also create greeting cards from my art work and have made some cards from my ballet photography I am a member of Bingley Camera Club... [Read more] |
Bradford | Details |
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Colourfield Painting01/01/2019 — ongoing I have a longstanding deep interest in the bidirectional interaction between colour and feelings. This is borne out of my own experiences of going through mental health problems. I have found a different personal response to exposure to individual colours when I have been well from when I have not been well. My journey through these periods... [Read more] |
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Ballet and Dance - Photography and Art01/01/2019 — ongoing I have a long standing interest in ballet and dance. I set out to explore dance and art, aiming to develop some paintings working with some lovely ballerinas. Instead I ended up primarily with lots of photos and developed these into greeting cards and framed prints. I would still like to create some more paintings at some point. The one... [Read more] |
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Fine Art Exhibition Curator01/01/2015 — 01/01/2022 I worked as the fine art exhibition curator at the Cathedral, supporting local artist to exhibit their work in the Artspace exhibition area. Curation at Bradford Cathedral (2015 - 2022) Doug Binder "Life" 2015 Jane Fielder "Petals and Pods" 2016 Andy Fullalove "Shadows and Reflection" 2016 Sharon Snaylam "Tirlun - "Picture of the... [Read more] |
Bradford Cathedral, Bradford | Details |
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Fine Artist - Landscape Painting01/01/2013 — ongoing My main preoccupation has been to work as a fine artist focussing on abstract landscape and figurative painting. Landscape provides its own joys and challenges and is a really good foil for figurative work. |
Bradford | Details |
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Portraiture and Life Drawing01/01/2013 — ongoing I am an active member of my local portrait and life drawing groups. The portrait group exhibited at Bingley Little Theatre in 2022. I also draw portraits independently. As a photographer I also take portraits as part of my repertoire. |
Shipley Baptist Church / Keighley Creative Space /Independent, Shipley / Keighley / Bradford | Details |
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Exhibitions01/01/2013 — ongoing Solo Exhibitions: Saffron Walden 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 - Oil Paintings and Collagraphs; Hope Street Gallery, Cambridge 2013 - "Tribute to Ben Nicholson", exhibition of Collagraphs; Bradford Cathedral 2014 - "Malham and Upper Wharfedale", Screen Prints and Collagraphs inspired by Malhamdale and the area around Kilnsey and... [Read more] |
Cambridgeshire / Yorkshire | Details |
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Fine Artist - Printing01/01/2013 — ongoing Fine art printing focussing on collagraphs and screen printing with some etching. I am a member of West Yorkshire Print Workshop in Mirfield. |
Bradford | Details |