Martin Gale RHABorn in Worcester in 1949 and educated in Ireland, Martin Gale lives and works in Co.Kildare. He graduated in painting from the National College of Art and Design, Dublin, in 1973.

His first one-man show came in Dublin in 1974 and he joined the Taylor Galleries in 1980.

He has had numerous one-man exhibitions in Dublin, Cork and Belfast, and has exhibited widely in Ireland, England, Europe and the USA and has represented Ireland a number of times, including the X1 Biennale de Paris.

His work can be found in many public, private and corporate collections, including the Irish Museum of Modern Art and the Crawford Municipal Gallery in Cork.In the early 1980s he was the subject of an Arts Council touring exhibition, travelling to ten venues throughout Ireland. He is a member of Aosdana, and has been a member of the RHA since 1996, serving as Keeper for 8 years. In 2013 he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Fine Art from the National University of Ireland, Maynooth.In 2004/05 the Royal Hibernian Academy (RHA) hosted a major retrospective of his work, which took a concentrated review of paintings over the previous decade, with a coda added of paintings from the late 70s through the 80s. The exhibition subsequently travelled to the Ulster Museum in Belfast.

His paintings are Realist in that they deal with the visible world. Usually landscape based, they respond to the interaction between landscape and people. Typically his paintings carry the suggestion of possible narratives, though nothing is clearly articulated. He works in Oils, Watercolour and occasionally printmaking. He is represented by the Taylor Galleries in Dublin and by JMLondon.

My notebook is one of a number of notebooks/sketchbooks that I have on the go at the same time, although this project forced me to concentrate on just one, in order to actually get one finished. They are vitally important, and serve to remind me where I am at any one time, and where I hope to be going. They are part of an ongoing dialogue with myself.