About Martin & Edna Galleries

Contact Information : Email to : art@ednagallery.com Call 360.298.2086 Mail & Shipping: 455 Eastsound Shores Road Eastsound, WA, 98245-8809

Contact Information

Email to : art@ednagallery.com Call 360.298.2086 Mail & Shipping: 455 Eastsound Shores Road Eastsound, WA, 98245-8809

Updated: Feb 26, 2010 5:10pm PST

About Martin & Edna : Edna Gallery is owned by Martin and Marcia Taylor. Martin, Marcia and their daughter Samantha have lived on Orcas since 1998. They share a "rambling" waterfront home with Cosmo, Max, Autumn and Tiger. Samantha is an artist in her own right and has gone off to college leaving us to our own devices. Edna Gallery shows and sells art photography by Martin, Samantha and other artists. Edna also provides a variety of services as detailed on our services page. Martin is a versatile professional photographer as well as an expert in printing and computer systems. He has a background in computer engineering as well as art and photography, not to mention a whole other past life spent mountaineering, rock climbing and adventuring. His enduring passion is in creating beauty in the print and digital domains. He does have a new found passion for rowing which is helping to keep him a perpetual youngster. He coaches and rows with the Orcas Island Rowing Club. Marcia is the business manager and the glue that holds it all together. You'll find her in every corner of the business, the studio and the family. She is the quintessential business wife and mother. Contact: martin@ednagallery.com or 360.298.2086 Edna Gallery 455 Eastsound Shores Road Eastsound, WA, 98245-8809 USA

About Martin & Edna

Edna Gallery is owned by Martin and Marcia Taylor. Martin, Marcia and their daughter Samantha have lived on Orcas since 1998. They share a "rambling" waterfront home with Cosmo, Max, Autumn and Tiger. Samantha is an artist in her own right and has gone off to college leaving us to our own devices. Edna Gallery shows and sells art photogra ...

Updated: Dec 15, 2009 4:06pm PST

Martin : Yes that's me a few years back in another land, in another time. Here is a little of the story of my life. I grew up in Sheffield a city in the north of England which used to be a steel town making the worlds special steels and fine cutlery. The city center was bombed into rubble in the 2nd world war and the rebuilding was bland and unimaginative. But the city is surrounded closely by beautiful countryside ranging from beaucoloic to wild. The scene of Jane Austen novels. I hiked the country in my youth with my dad and later I climbed the miles and thousands of cliffs. The area around Sheffield has long been a climbing mecca and produced many of the worlds finest climbers. It was rock climbing that first took me to America. In the mid 70's Boulder, CO and Yosemite were the meccas of modern climbing. I reveled in the beauty and novelty of a life at once foreign and familiar through movies and literature. I never really recovered from my first adventures in America and now find myself almost as much an American as a working class son of Sheffield. I spent another lifetime in Northern California becoming educated and immersed in the silicon culture. Designing custom computer chips and working around silicon valley and living in the iconic surf town of Santa Cruz was truly a surreal dream. I loved that life and those places but something in my British genes yearned for British weather. So eventually Marcia, Samantha and our 3 cats drove north a thousand miles and took a ferry to live on Orcas Island. Living on Orcas has been it's own kind of adventure. And while living here I have changed the focus of my career from the use of technology to create chips for printers and phones to using it to create art works. Digital photography builds on my life experiences in technology and self sufficient adventure as well as my experience in film photography. I revel in art of photography and the digital technology that now spans every field of human endeavor. Since living on Orcas I have discovered the rich sport of rowing which provides challenges and rewards that are intellectual, technical, philosophical, emotional, psychological and of course physical. It is a sport I hope to be involved in for decades to come. So if you need some photographic images, fine art prints, some images for your web presence, some education in the digital or photographic arts, or you just want to go rowing please don't hesitate to get in touch. Martin

Martin

Yes that's me a few years back in another land, in another time. Here is a little of the story of my life. I grew up in Sheffield a city in the north of England which used to be a steel town making the worlds special steels and fine cutlery. The city center was bombed into rubble in the 2nd world war and the rebuilding was bland and un ...

Updated: Dec 15, 2009 10:31pm PST