As he was a quiet man, only those closest to my husband, Nick Martin, who has died from a brain tumour aged 55, knew of his two great passions: art and his family.Perhaps Nick's fascination with art began when, at the age of eight, he witnessed an older friend painting a landscape in which she coloured one of the trees completely red. This puzzled and impressed him, and the memory stayed. As a teenager, Nick began to paint and to take a great interest in the work of artists, particularly René Magritte, whose pictures delighted him for the rest of his life. At this time he started to acquire what became a thorough and detailed knowledge of art history. Following Maidstone grammar school, he did an art foundation course at Canterbury College of Art, and from there went to Goldsmiths in Lond...
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