Martin Wolverson

Educated at Wolverhampton Polytechnic and Goldsmith's College, University of London. Became lecturer in sculpture at Leicester College of Art and then Senior Lecturer in sculpture at Hull College of Art. He has exhibited regularly from 1962 to the present day in the UK, USA an Japan. Martin is an elected fellow of the Royal Society of British Sculptors and a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

Martin's true passions are sculpture and music, particularly jazz. These interests are very evident in his collage work which has a very three dimensional feel. The work emulates the structure of musical pieces and the relationship between the different instruments taking over the main melody.

'The wide range of influences on me as a student, fortunately, did not lead to confusion but to richness, and I moved towards sculpture as an occupation in the late 1950's when the scene was dominated by Jacob Epstein and Henry Moore. Strangely though, two tutors at Goldsmith's College, Kenneth and Mary Martin, were a major inspiration to me in spite of the rigorous geometry in their work. Their influence acted as an antidote to the graphic, biomorphic flowing line used by people who taught me anatomy, life-drawing and modelling, obligatory areas of study in my early student days.'