Martha Ferguson,
painter, printmaker and nature lover based in Portland, Maine.
The natural environment, oceans and woodlands are sources of inspiration for her drawings, prints, and sculptures. Ferguson has had solo exhibitions at Adler Gallery in Port Washington, and Berkeley College in New York City. Her work has been included in numerous group exhibitions, including New Jersey Arts Incubator, Rosenwald Wolf Gallery, Sande Webster Gallery, and Gallery Via San Gallo in Florence, Italy. She has received painting awards from the East End Arts Council and the Guild Hall Museum. Her work is in the collection of the Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and various private collections.
Ferguson was awarded a Japanese Fulbright Memorial Fund Fellowship to travel to Tokyo and was selected to represent American art educators in Okinawa. While in Japan she was the guest of renowned Japanese printmaker, Takuji Kubo and initiated an international printmaking project, “Peace Flags Across the Seas”. In 2012 and 2014, the Lerman Charitable Trust awarded Ferguson an artist residency at Soaring Gardens Artists’ Retreat in Laceyville, PA. Recently, she was also selected for an artist residency at the Truro Center for the Arts in Massachusetts and chaNorth in Pine Plains, NY.
In 2010 Ferguson received her Master of Fine Arts degree in Painting from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia where she was awarded a graduate merit scholarship. She has also studied painting at Santa Reparta International School of Art in Florence, Italy and printmaking in Corsica, France.