Frank Martin

Frank Martin, Illustrator, Printmaker, Artist, (1921-2005)

Frank Vernon Martin was born in Dulwich on January 14, 1921. He died on July 29, 2005, aged 84.

Frank Martin went to Uppingham, from where he won a history scholarship Page 1 Untitled to Hertford College, Oxford, in 1939. After a short wartime degree at Oxford, he was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1941. He married Peg the following year. After the war he went to St Martins School of Art, where he studied with Gertrude Hermes and Clifford Webb. His first commercial work was drawing fashion for The Sunday Times in 1949-50, after which he began his career as a book-illustrator. Though new to printmaking, he soon found himself secretary to the Society of Wood Engravers, through which he met the artist John Buckland-Wright, who found him a post at Camberwell School of Art, where he was to teach for 27 years. He was promoted to senior lecturer in 1965, and was head of graphic design from 1976 through the four years to his retirement.