Don’t be afraid, my life would be charmed if it weren’t for all those dead bodies. everything I do is based on my historyDSCN2730 The only son in the third generation of a furniture and funeral business, a moving business, my family used me like a mule. It’s an important detail in my history because I never stopped working on my art, when I couldn’t throw pots from spine injuries, I started to paint.While in a body cast for 4 months I used crayons now I call them distemper.Being a lousy student I never learned much 2d so at painting I am self taught. At the Hough Home for Funerals
1980 in the morgue paying my dues
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Same Day Mt. Bethel Pa.1980 on the farm where my studio was with George Young, SNL band and just about all other music you have ever heard, out of the crypt, same day making pots take note of same shirt.George ,Bobby Dorough,Eric Doney ,his Dad and My mentor Bob Doney222 098,all kinds of musical and artistic genius living around me,a young artists security blanket.
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Oil on Canvas a world class painting by Bob Doney. Do you tube ....Prologue no.39 John Coates cover by Bob Doney ,Piano monster John Coates jr. that will give you an idea from where I came.Deer Head Inn still there still the best musicians in the world 70 miles west of NYC.IMG_1160345 007DSCN4733Cool Guys wear white socks Bob Dorough famous musician and art lover check his website ,and Hough the painter on their respective back porch, these are not the same person this is what art does to you.Cool huh

Since I was sixteen I just stayed in my studio and created or went to galleries and museums to study,I had a ball like a kid but always ended up in my shop studied my masters whether they are yours or not. Seems most the folks I grew up with didn’t know what I was doing while they were playing, I was working, I was building a pottery studio in my Pop-Pops garage.Learned early that recognition didn’t get my life’s work done.
2005 Broome St. Gallery N.Y.C. juried by real NYC artists like Roy Lichtenstein at the New York Artists Equity.

1995 - The Stiener Gallery, Bal Harbor, FL
1994 - St. Peters Church, One man Show, NY
1987 -  Rhinebeck Juried Craft Show, NY
1987 - American Crafts National History Museum, NY
1987 - Annual Invitational Pottery Show and Sale, Green Meadow Waldorf School, Spring Valley, NY
1999-2001 -Martin on Pineapple Gallery, Sarasota, FL My studio in town was a store front and immediately was in the black go figure they liked my decorative thing,closed it after 911 had no idea it could have worked after that attack I’m a New York kinda guy and was shattered but the city is so strong the only people that can power thru that adversity.
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Sarasota Fl  2000
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1983 - Three Generations Show Middle Earth Pottery, PA
1981 - One Man Show Middle Earth Pottery, PA
1979 - The Potter at Waterloo Village, NJ
1977 - Dotout Museum, Delaware Water Gap, PA
1977 - Honor Show Rochester Institute of Technology,


My creative process expands over three decades with the initial medium in clay.  The influences in working with clay has given the paintings a unique prospective.

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City Tempo, is a Martin Hough original, titled: "King Fisher XX.Great painting wrong town.The painting hung in a design house, all kind of people filed by like a viewing of the dead.One charming gal fell in love with it but couldn’t buy it because she felt her mother in law would freak out,that it had religious content. I’d rather they hate the piece or love it than not notice the art at all.
Sarasota Magazine
IMG0003_2Watercolor and Linocut 1995