My paintings offer a meeting point between a built environment and the natural world. I seek to open up a space between living forms and their contexts where painting begins to acquire a life of its own, at a distance from logic, reason, and coherence.

Martin Golland (b. Montpellier, FR 1975) received his MFA from the University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada (2006) and his BFA from Concordia University, Montreal (1998). He has exhibited nationally and internationally, including “Adisokamagan: We All Become Stories” at the Ottawa Art Gallery (2018),  “Imaging Disaster” at Museum London, Ontario (2013), and the “11th Annual RBC Painting Competition” at the National Gallery of Canada (2010). His work has been written about in numerous reviews, articles, and publications. His work has been collected into public and private collections across Canada, USA, Germany, and abroad.