Duncan Martin
Duncan Martin is a painter living and working in Saguache, Colorado. Starting in 2011, Duncan’s work focused on a painting project, 58 in 58, painting in all 59 National Parks in 59 months. (A 59th park was added in 2013). In February 2016, he painted in his 59th Park, Glacier National Park. A selection of work from this project was exhibited at the Schoodic Institute at Acadia National Park celebrating the 100th anniversary of Acadia National Park and the National Park Service in August 2016. The project is ongoing as Duncan continues developing work from his experiences painting in the parks.
Duncan received a BA in Studio Art from Principia College in 1976, He continued studying painting with Neil Welliver and others at the University of Pennsylvania, receiving an MFA in 1986. Duncan joined the Studio Art faculty at Principia College in 1987. In 1995, he left full-time teaching to focus on painting. He returned to Principia College as a Professor of Art in 2010, serving as Chair of the Art and Art History Department until 2021 when he retired from teaching to paint, paint, paint.
Duncan’s paintings have been exhibited in “Beholding Earth”, a pop-up show in Seattle at 210Seattle: at the SIUE Invitational Exhibition 2021, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, Edwardsville, Illinois; The Schoodic Institute at Acadia National Park; Hunt Gallery, Mary Baldwin College, Staunton, Virginia; Davis Dominguez Gallery, Tucson, Arizona; Nielsen Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts; Susan Street Fine Art, Solana Beach, California; Shaw Contemporary and gWatson Gallery, Maine; The Gallery at the Tucson International Airport, Tucson, Arizona; The Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona; and the New Bedford Art Museum, New Bedford, Massachusetts.