John Edward Martin is an artist, educator, and conservator working in traditional painted stained glass. His original work is housed in numerous private collections, has been exhibited in solo and group shows at the Burlington Arts Centre, MADE Toronto, Roth Gallery and featured in the Stained Glass Quarterly and The Globe and Mail.
For the last four years, he has been a senior conservator and restoration painter with Traditional Glassworks, working to restore the historical stained and leaded glass windows in Canada’s Houses of Parliament, the largest restoration project of its kind in Canadian history.
John is a popular educator; he has instructed numerous glass painting and drawing workshops in his own Westport, Ontario studio as well as for the Art Gallery of Hamilton and several stained glass retailers/maker spaces. His education in classical academic drawing and painting lends a particular sympathy when undertaking painted restoration pieces. In addition to freelancing, John creates autonomous art panels as well as taking private commissions. While his work is rooted in traditional technique, it draws upon a diversity of influences from historic esoteric imagery, tattooing, to modern lowbrow art.
