ABOUT THE ARTIST

Embracing wabi-sabi imperfections and letting process lead the way, Martha Main is an artist and designer based in Savannah, GA. Inspired by the marsh, shifting horizons, and rolling clouds, she creates abstracted landscapes in a monochrome palette — memories of place rather than exact coordinates.

Working from emotion and intuition, her paintings become markers of time, each one a moment captured and released. In her cyanotype paintings, the negatives dissolve into their blue world, each mark surrendering to its opposite as light and water shape the final image.

Formally trained in graphic design at Rhode Island School of Design (2010) and now working remotely as a Director of Creative Operations, her painting practice offers a counterbalance — an invitation to play, explore, and work with her hands beyond the structured rhythms of the workday. When not behind a screen or painting in deep blues, she can be found walking nature trails with her husband and dog or experimenting in the kitchen.

ON BLUE

This particular blue comes from the cyanotype process — where light, water, and time work together to leave their mark. UV-sensitive paper captures an image in sunlight, and water washes it into its final hue. An alchemy of elements, each cyanotype is shaped by the day, the moment, the shifting rhythm of time itself.