A collection of 7,000 works was discovered in Robert Martiensen’s South Australian farmhouse after his death in 2007, and is now on display
With the Breath of Morn and the Soft Sea Air, a painting in the Robert Martiensen: The Secret exhibition at Hamilton Gallery in Victoria.With the Breath of Morn and the Soft Sea Air, a painting in the Robert Martiensen: The Secret exhibition at Hamilton Gallery in Victoria.As a child, Viola Morton used to spend her school holidays at the South Australian farmhouse where her eccentric cousin, Robert Martiensen, lived.
“I’ve been an art valuer for 30 years,” Arthur says. “The gentleman on the line said when he had cleared out this house he found all these paintings. And I mean thousands of paintings. “He was totally untrained, he had no connection to the art world, he was not painting for profit, he was painting in secret,” Arthur says.
“It’s really resonated with the younger people,” White says. “I think because he’s an outsider artist, bound by no rules, it’s accessible to youth and a really interesting story. “I’d only seen a dozen pieces when he had shown me what he’d been doing and pulled out a few canvases, but I didn’t realise he had what he had,” she says. “It was just a revelation to go.”
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