Martin Greenland paints scenes that are superficially glossy and idealized, calling upon a wide range of landscape styles from the great early Dutch landscape painters to the British Romantic masters including Constable. He speaks their language but what he is saying is very different – personal and contemporary. It is as if he is distancing himself from the scenes he paints so masterfully, observing them with a modern eye. Martin is a former winner of the highly prestigious John Moores Prize (2006), his winning work (Before Vermeer’s Clouds) being surely one of the greatest landscape paintings of the last few decades. Martin has exhibited widely in his native Cumbria and northwest England, as well as in London; where he recently had a successful solo show in Spitalfields.