As a third generation Colorado native, Martin Ring was brought up in a tradition that embraced the outdoors.

His very first piece of art was a crayon rendering of a flock of geese produced at the age of six.  Since then his artistic focus has always been the natural world, and animals in particular.  At the urging of his middle school teacher he began painting in water color.  The teacher told him that the unforgiving nature of watercolor would take great discipline to master, helping him in other more serious media. 

One day when he was fifteen changed his life.  With nothing to do one Saturday afternoon, he and a fellow art student rode the bus down to the Denver Art Museum, and as luck would have it the featured show that month was of Karl Bodmer.  Bodmer accompanied Prince Maximilian to the Upper Missouri in 1832-34, and produced some of the finest portraits of the high plains Indians ever done, along with breathtaking landscapes and important natural history renderings, all done in watercolor.  For the first time he saw watercolor as something more than a discipline, and began to paint exclusively in water media.

Since then he has strived to paint in a style not seen much in the twenty first century.  Martin has wandered some of the wildest areas of North America in search of subject mater, including such places as Yellowstone and the Arctic Wildlife Refuge of Alaska. His natural history portraits have been  published nation wide, and appear in numerous galleries.  He is currently working on a body of work portraying the megalithic pre-history of Britain.

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