"Once Was" - Original painting on mounted wooden panel. By Alan C. Martin

An original abstract painting, acrylic and gouache paint, graphite pencil, and artist's crayon onto a 300mm x 300mm wooden panel, mounted onto a wooden frame, giving an over-all depth of 23mm. Sealed with cold wax.

This panel is ready to hang in its natural state, or is suitable for framing.

Comes with a MAPS & LADDERS collection catalogue, and two signed art prints.

This painting is featured in the "Maps & Ladders" catalogue.

"Alan C. Martin studied painting at The West Sussex College of Art and Design in Worthing, West Sussex, where he was a student from the years 1982-1987. He worked alongside artists Philip Bond and Jamie Hewlett, the three friends would go on to create comics together. His tutors were artists Jan Wright, Gordon Coldwell, David Mills (assistant to Bridget Riley in the 1960s), and the renowned ceramicist and potter Trentham De Leliva."