Martin Rayner ARSA 1946-2004

Martin Rayner worked on newspapers in Haddington, Edinburgh, Aberdeen and New Zealand before changing tack to become an artist and graduating from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee. He also worked in the shipping industry and much of his work was inspired by the sea.

Rayner had an award winning career as a sculptor and his work is held in private and public collections throughout the world. He was a visiting lecturer during the 1990s to art colleges in Edinburgh, Cork, Dundee, Leith, Aberdeen and Liverpool.

Rayner exhibited widely across the UK and abroad, including in the US, Sweden and Germany.