Martin Battye

I find I have less and less to say about the paintings I make: I am happy to be led on the journey they take me on.
However, sometimes it is words of others that say with more precision and accuracy what I struggle to feel and articulate……

‘It is strange how deeply colours seem to penetrate one, like scent….’ Dorothea Brooke, in George Eliot’s Middlemarch.

‘Unless you read a painting as a feeling, then you don’t get anything at all….’ Michael Kidner – painter 1917 – 2009