Collection: Annette Martin

I am an artist drawn to the quiet power and hidden stories of women whose lives have often been misunderstood or misrepresented. My work explores these narratives through mixed media, photography, and assemblage, blending the personal with the historical, the intimate with the universal.

Subjects and Inspiration

From Mary Magdalene to Marilyn Monroe, my subjects inhabit a space where mythology, media, and memory intersect. I am fascinated by the tension between how women are seen and the lives they actually live, and I aim to give form to both the visible and the unseen through layers of material, light, and texture.

Glitter, lace, archival fragments, and carefully chosen objects appear throughout my pieces as symbols of devotion, expectation, and resilience. Each artwork begins with a catalyst—a self-portrait or a found image—and develops into a reliquary of meaning, inviting the viewer to pause, reflect, and reconsider familiar narratives.

Through my work, I hope to create spaces of empathy and contemplation, where beauty, fragility, and strength coexist, and where the overlooked or dismissed can be honored.