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Martin Hasson
Martin Hasson comes from a long background of artists, although he was the only one to take up art professionally. He started painting at the age of four under the tutelage of his father and was considered somewhat of a child protege. By the age of ten he had won most art competitions he had entered. After completing his education, he qualified as a graphic designer and had a successful career in his field of art for sixteen years, during this period he was often encouraged by the fellow artist the late Arthur Twells, himself a well recognised and revered landscape artist, to enter into the arena of fine art. But on the point of entry, Martin suffered from a recurring illness that coupled with the stage of unrest in his native North, halted his progress for a while. But despite these disadvantages, which he found frustrating and of which he rarely speaks, he then persevered to return to his first love, fine art. With the encouragement of his wife, family and friends, he decided to stage his first one man show with the aid of a grant from the Londonderry Art Society and a considerably lucrative rate of rental and commission from the extensive and well equipped heritage library, he went on to mount his first and very successful one man show. This became the catalyst for his now busy and ever growing recognition in the field of art.
He has had three successful one man shows from which his work has been recognised and bought from Ireland, Canada, U.S.A., Iceland, Germany and Australia, where his works hang proudly alongside some of the finest Irish Art, both of the old generation and the new. But he considers, one of the finest compliments he was ever paid, was when a piece of his work was purchased for the Hillsborough Castle collection by Christies of London. His passion for his work is all consuming and shows in his paintings, he describes his career as that of a river, which twists and bends, sometimes calm and sometimes turbulent but nevertheless beautiful, challenging, ever widening, sometimes it's frightening and other times restful but never dull and lifeless. My career has had many of these changes and never ceases to amaze and fulfil me. I think my love of art has sustained me through a great deal of dark clouds and my ability to has heightened my awareness of the beauty in this wondrous world we live in.
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