Lewes-based Martin explains: “Start Of/End Of is a selection of oil paintings and graphite drawings completed during the last 12 months. The exhibition highlights an ongoing conversation between these mediums, one responding to the other. The oil paintings are worked instinctively, in response to found images or work I’ve already made, taking the audience down unexpected avenues; pleasing, eerie, uncomfortable, comedic. “The tightly-worked graphite drawings present an environment of cityscapes in which altering scales and perceptions prompt the viewer to question what is real and what is imagined. The process of making is documented on my Instagram page – martin gayford. “I was born in London in 1971 and currently live and work in Lewes and London. Since graduating from Winchester School of Art in 1993, I’ve shown in solo and group shows in London, Berlin and Lewes. Recent mixed exhibitions include Inventory of Behaviours at Tate Modern and To Paint The Gloom Itself at Terrace Gallery, London. Last year, I also curated a large group show Six Days In December at Thames-Side Gallery in London. Coinciding with Start Of/End Of, I have work in two London shows.”