Avant Gardeners: C&C at the Stables, Houghton Hall, Norfolk

Born in 1965, Martin Mitchell moved to Norwich in 1989 and set up an etching studio. Sadly, around 2000, poor health forced him to give up etching and begun to concentrate almost exclusively on mezzotint. In 1995 Martin founded the Norwich Print fair, partly to help raise awareness of fine art printmaking among the public and to create opportunities for other printmakers to show their work. In 2015 & 2017 he took part in the International Mezzotint Festival in Yekaterinburg, Russia. Martin was elected an Associate of the Royal Society of Painter Printmakers (ARE)

"I have has always been influenced by a love of landscape and an interest in the natural environment. My work always begins with physically being in the landscape producing lots of location drawings and taking photos. Ill health means that a short trip in the countryside has become an adventure, so the work is deeply observed with a quiet melancholy. The memories held within the landscape itself as much as my own."

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