Martin Baldock

Martin is a multi-disciplinary artist, musician, and writer using both traditional and contemporary media. He likes to explore the properties, and capabilities of materials and technologies, always looking for ways to subvert or mistreat them.

He was born in Kent in 1948 and has always had a creative impulse, a need to express himself via the arts, he is influenced by Rembrandt, Picasso, Duchamp, Pollock, but mainly artists from the postwar period. His literary influences are mainly from the 20th centuary, from poets and songwriters of that era, and the present.

In recent times he has been working with pastel and inks on canvas to make both abstract and figurative work, also using found objects and clay to make 3D works. All of his output is made in response to music, to art history, and to life in general.

His music, is a kind of 21st Century Blues infused with beats, noise, and sound effects, using guitars, synthesisers, samplers, and the spoken word. His musical collaborations include, “The Godmonkey Skyhook Amalgamation”, “The Mighty Pandl”, “The Slackstring Band”, and his own is presented under the monikas “martRox”, “the Mythical DJ”.

He has had some of his poetry published in the collections put together by the Corby Collective Poets.