Ella Martin is a multidisciplinary artist whose primary focus is oil painting, exploring mortality through a contemporary memento mori lens. Her paintings confront impermanence through rich textures, layered colour, and evocative symbolism, inviting viewers to reflect on life’s fleeting moments.

Martin’s interest in mortality comes from how modern culture both avoids and glorifies death, inspiring her to explore how art can express both fear and beauty. Recently, her practice has expanded into ceramics and light experimentation — using luminescent reactive paint to transform the way her paintings are experienced.

By combining traditional oil techniques with modern materials and ideas, Martin reinterprets memento mori for today-offering a contemplative space to engage with life, death, and the transient beauty that exists between.