Martyn Cross Cathedral Year 2024 Medium Oil pastel on paper Dimensions 21.1 x 29.7 cm Top pick Selected by Simon Grant, writer & curator About the work Drawing is where all my paintings begin life. When I draw I usually work quite quickly and the more successful attempts appear on the paper in quite an unthinking way. There’s a unique energy about making marks with a crayon, a piece of charcoal or a stick – it captures a personal truth unlike any other form. Date and country of birth 1975, GB Career Highlights Selected Exhibitions: All Shall Be Well, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, USA (2023); My Assembled Selves, Flatland Projects, Bexhill, UK (2023); John Moores Painting Prize, Walker Gallery, Liverpool, UK (2023); Polireality, Hive Center, Beijing, China (2023); The Moth and the Thunderclap, Stuart Shave Modern Art, London, UK (2023); O happiness! happiness!, Hales Gallery, London, UK (2022); Roarings Further Out, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, USA (2022); Myths of Observation, Hales Gallery, London, UK (2022); Gods of War, OHSH Projects, London, UK (2022); Earth Hymns, Ratio 3, San Francisco, USA (2021) Collections: Institute of Contemporary Arts, Miami, FL, USA