Mountain Artist Martina Diez-Routh will be Painting Live at the Ski Club of Great Britain 120th Anniversary Dinner Gala
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Mountain Artist Martina Diez-Routh will be Painting Live at the Ski Club of Great Britain 120th Anniversary Dinner Gala
London, United Kingdom. – London- based mountain artist Martina Diez-Routh will be painting live at the Ski Club of Great Britain 120th Anniversary Dinner Gala on Friday 30th June to be held at the Café Royal in Regent Street.
At the Ski Club of Great Britain event, Martina will be creating a piece that will be a time capsule, to reflect the founding event of the Ski Club of Great Britain 120 years ago, at the Café Royal, and where the club is aiming to be 120 years in the future. It will connect the founding fathers of the ski club, with today and future members through their love of the mountains.
Martina is a mountain painter who works with soft pastels to recreate her beloved mountains. She learnt how to use pastels seven years ago after trying all different mediums. During the pandemic, she got to know more about papers and pastel materials and invested her time in creating more sophisticated and bigger pieces of art. The rich colours and consistency of hand-made pastels, paired with the quality of pastel papers, make her paintings’ colours stand out.
In her “Mountain Tops Collection” Martina has created a series of mountains as seen if standing in a platform across their tops. In her work, she likes to study the light and how it accentuates different ridges and slopes.
In this particular series, she focuses on the mountain alone, just to represent the grandiosity of the landscape. The idea is to make people feel a speck in such grandeur.
Martina likes to recreate the mountains to have a memory of how they are today. She is, worried about climate change and how it can affect the mountains’ surfaces. Glaciers retreating, snow lines increasing, and periodic rock avalanches make the mountains change their façades.
Martina likes to “…start by making sketches of the mountain in charcoal, painting all the shades and forms. Then I commence by adding shades of whites. I love using several layers of pan pastels for doing the skies. Pan pastels are a form of soft pastels that are applied with a sponge, similar to a makeup sponge. Using pastel paper with lots of teeth, I can add layer upon layer of pigment, to create a colour that pops out. My mountains also have lots of layers
made of different colours of soft pastel sticks. I love filling the paper with vast amount of colours. I smudge some colours and use strokes to mark some other parts of the painting.
My shades of whites tend to have lots of tones: blues, purples, and pinks. Rocks can also have tones: browns, oranges, and blues. Sometimes it is not visible at simple sight, but if you observe closely, you can see the different colours in each part of the mountain.”
“I am working on this series for my end-of-year solo exhibition at the Tour de l’Archet, the most ancient castle of the Aosta Valley, dating to the end of the X century.”, explained Martina. ”And I am so excited to paint in the Gala Dinner of the Ski Club of Great Britain, in front of people that love the mountains as much as I do; this is a very exciting opportunity in my career. I want to thank all the people of the Ski Club of Great Britain for such an amazing experience!”
Martina has exhibited for the third time in Smagart in Blackheath, London, also for the FUSS Fair and Lee Green Open Studios, and all the quarterly exhibitions at the Blackheath Conservatoire, as well as her art being present in the end of the ski season of the Ski Club of Great Britain at the WhiteHaus in Fenchurch, London, and at the Listex Luxury dinner on a boat on the River Thames, in downtown London. She had last year a solo exhibition at the Caffé della Posta in Courmayeur Mont Blanc, and the year before another solo exhibition at the Capella di San Giuseppe in Morgex, Aosta Valley.
Martina’s art is also permanently exhibited at the Chalet Svissero, QC Terme Hotel, Hotel La Grange, Caffé della Posta in Courmayeur, Dada Hotel Morgex, Bar lo Dernier and Immobiliaria Isigest in Morgex and at the Blackheath Conservatoire in SE London, UK.
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The Ski Club of Great Britain is a membership organisation that operates on a not-for-profit basis. It was founded in 1903 at the Café Royal in central London.
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