"Pouring An Ingot"
18”x24” $200
“Horizon Incident,2”
16”x20” $290 at A&D
“Blue Sail Going Home”
16”x20” sold
Original oil paintings
To inquire about a painting - email martinj918@mac.com
At the moment my website is sort of messy. My computer was out of business for a few weeks and one of the things that got neglected was this website. I put in some interesting stuff including a number of my old paintings, and when I get a chance I will clean up this site.
I promise.
“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
“Boat With Long Mooring Line, No.2” 30”x48” $450 SOLD
“She Left Yesterday” 24”x36”
This is not for sale. It was painted after I heard of the death of my first girlfriend.
“Portrait of a New Friend” 18”x18” not for sale
“Rug Store”
24”x36” $280
UnNamed, 1 24”x36”SOLD
“Red and White Rowboat”
18”x24” $125
“Sailboat in Shallow Inlet”
18”x24” $150 (at A&D)
“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
“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”
40”x16” $500
“Beach Runners, no.13
Kilauea, Hawaii”
16”x20” sold CK
“Blood Moon Setting”, 16x20”
SOLD
“Little White Wave”
40”x40” $450
“Progression”
16”x16” $100
“Tommy’s Fantasy”
60” x 36” $600
(HUGH PAINTING_)
“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
“Hug”
8x20”
$250
SOLD
“Quiet Moment”
16x20”
$300
“Lean On Me”
16x16” $300
“Summer Soon?”
16x16”
$300
“Gentle Greeting”
10x20” $250
“Tokio from Money Heist”
16”x16” $600
“The Heat Came (#2)” 36”x24” $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"
16”x20” $460
"BILL"
NOT FOR SALE
"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