"Pouring An Ingot"

18”x24”  $200

“Horizon Incident,2” 

16”x20”  $290 

“Blue Sail Going Home”

16”x20”  sold

Original oil paintings

To inquire about a painting - email  martinj918@mac.com


Feb. 16,-22:

Hi! OK, I've got this website up to date. I had some minor health issues that had me non-painting and non-website maintaining. I think I've got both the painting and the website functioning now.                     

“Beach Ball”  20”x16”  SOLD

“Beach Runners, no.3, Distant mountains”

16”x20”  SOLD

“Beach Runners”  These distant beings seem lonesome. Also oddly independent. I don’t know where they’re going but looking at them makes me more sure of where I’m going. The Runners are dwarfed by the landscape as we are by the immenseness of the Universe we’re in. I don’t understand why I keep painting these but I look at them a lot.

“Beach Runners, no.5, Color Fall”

16”x20  sold CK

“Warm Floater Rowboat”

18”x24”  $250

“Black and White Outboard with a Droopy Painter”  18”x24”  $350

“Boat With Long Mooring Line” 

18”x24”  $390  SOLD

“Pirogue Rental” 

18”x24”  $370 (pending sa;e)

“Boat With Long Mooring Line, No.2”  30”x48”  SOLD

“She Left Yesterday”  24”x36”

This is not for sale. I painted it after I heard of the death of my first girlfriend.

" A Friend”  18”x18”

not for sale

“Rug Store” 

24”x36”  SOLD

UnNamed, 1   24”x36”SOLD

“Red and White Rowboat”

18”x24”  $125

“Sailboat in Shallow Inlet” 

18”x24”  $150 

“When the Sun Came Up, the Beach Pieces

Came Back from the Sky” 48”x30”  SOLD

(This one worked! It’s a new technique for me where I use stencil brushes to “grind”  the paint into the canvas. The paint goes on in less quantity and transmits more light.)

“My Hidden Pond”   24”x18”  $200 SOLD

“Fired, 2”

18”x24” $370 SOLD

“Brash Setting, 2”

18”x24” $170

“Beach Runners, no.7, Dunes”

16”x20”  SOLD

“Beach Runners, no.9, Lightning”

16”x20”   $380 SOLD

“Beach Runners, no.10,Black Hills”

16”x20”   SOLD

“Beach Runners, no.11, Omen 2”

16”x20”   $380

My friend Max Wensell took this photo and posted it on Facebook.  The incredible light that’s generated in it appealed to me. JM

“From Max Wensell Photo”

40x16”  $500

“Beach Runners, no.13

Kilauea, Hawaii”

16”x20”  sold CK

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“Little White Wave”   40”x40”SOLD

“Progression”

16”x16” $100

“Tommy’s Fantasy” 60” x 36” $600

“Sun Through Birches, 3”  18”x24”  $250

“Light Through Trees, No. 4”

18”x24” $400  at Mathew’s

“The Heat Came” 

16”x20”  $200    at Mathew’s

“Joyride”  48”x30”  SOLD

“Night Flight”, 16x20”

$300

I was born in Evanston, Ill,  lived in St. Louis, then graduated from Yale before I moved to Nashville after working for DuPont, Electric Boat, and as a pilot in the US Air Force.  I founded Hobby Lobby International, Inc. which was an early leader in selling on the Internet, and which gave me a chance to continue my hobby of flying model airplanes.


I have painted all my life and sold my first paintings over sixty years ago.  My paintings are in dozens of private collections around the United States. I sold Hobby Lobby and retired from it in 2008  and now I can spend more time painting. 


I particularly like paintings that seem to generate their own light and in paintings that can suggest different moods to different viewers. I only use oil paints, not acrylics. I like the way oil colors mix.

                                                     Jim Martin

"Krys’s Inlet, 2”, 16x16”

$300

“Quiet Moment”

16x20”

$300

“Lean On Me”

16x16” $300

Summer Soon?

16x16”

$300

Tokio from Money Heist 

16x16”   $600

“The Heat Came (#2)” 36x24” $300

To the right is one of the nicest compliments that an artist can ever have. The owner of my painting below her comment posted it on Facebook with the words above it.  I am overwhelmed. And I emailed her to make sure that the heavy heart was not permanent.  It wasn’t.

Profile 1  

16x20”   $460

Profile 2 

16”x16"     $370

I thought when I started these Profiles that they would be easier to paint than regular multi-color paintings.  They are not, but I'm learning.  JM

"Sundown"  18"x24"  SOLD

Summer Maple Leaf

30x24" $500

Autumn Maple Leaf 

30"x24" $500

Gentle Greeting

10x20"

$250

"KRYSTL'S INLET, 2"

16X16"$200

"NIGHT FLIGHT"

16X20" $20

"Jo's Rowboat"

16x20"

commissioned

"Sunrise at Roca Cuadadra"

16x20" $340

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"Girl Number Three",16x20" $300

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"Girl Number Four",16x20" $300

"Global Warmer"  20x16"

$300