This sunset scene in the Canadian countryside could be from one of  many parts of our country. Martin has painted in a layering way that gives depth and texture, much as we would see it ourselves.

This Ontario homestead scene reflects Martin's favourite lifestyle, he rented farms on the outskirts of Toronto to enjoy and provide food for his large family. It also provided him with opportunity to paint the pioneer and rural life of the day first hand.

These fruits were undoubtedly from Martin's Toronto garden.  He was an avid gardener with fruit trees, shrubs of berries as well as many perennial flowers and vegetables. Like Johnny Appleseed, he carried pockets full of seeds of all the items in his garden on his travels into the wilderness, even to sprinkling the Rocky Mountains with tree and flower seeds. Like Johnny Appleseed, he too was of the Swedenborg faith.

There are three sepals, two lower petals are fused together to form the slipper with reddish brown spots in the interior. It blooms late spring to early summer for about 3 weeks.

Sunlight filters through the beech trees and leads us to the pleasant green grass beyond. Let us spread out our blanket and lie down and enjoy the sweet smell and feel the soft earth the warm rays of the sun. What a lovely way to spend an hour or two in nature and this quietness.

Nine times Martin visited Victoria between 1887-1910, local artists took him under their wing and took him to some of their favourite sites for sketching. He once lived at Shoal Bay (now McNeilll Bay) for a year and a half.  In this painting he captured the flora and fauna of the park, the Anglican Cathedral church tower off in the distance (the first Christ Church Cathedral burnt to the ground in 1869, this, the second, was built in 1872), and a city worker mowing the grass on a horse drawn mower.  In the 1840's, early immigrants to Victoria, BC called this area 'the park'. Domestic animals were set there to feed and they helped keep the vegetation down. In 1850, on the hill, they stood a pole with a beacon cask on top and there was another beacon closer to the beach, hence the name Beacon Hill. These served as guides to the harbour. 

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This historic castle in Toronto, Ontario, built in 1914, had 98 rooms, 25 fireplaces, 30 bathrooms, three bowling alleys, a tunnel under the road to the stables, and its own telephone exchange before the owner went bankrupt in 1924. It was briefly a luxury hotel, then vacant for years until 1936 when the Kiwanis Club took it over to run as a popular tourist spot.

This is a Toronto scene believed to have been painted where Eglionton and Mt Pleasant are today, now covered with apartments buildings and parkig lots. Thomas Mower Martin loved nature and painted scenes as he saw them. He created many works that reflected his own nature that can bring a peace and restfulness to each of us.

Martin painted many pictures of sheep from the Rocky Mountains. These, Fannin Sheep, were named after the first curator of the BC Museum, John Fannin. The majestic bighorn sheep roam the Yukon using their well adapted hooves for climbing and gripping the rocky slopes. They have been around since the last ice age.

121 hectares with a stunning collection of botanicals and a memorable glasshouse west of London, UK. Kew was created in 1759, has a Chinese pagoda built in 1761, the largest herbarium in the world, and the largest glass house in existence - The Palm House. The property dates back to King James the 1st and his hunting grounds and Lodge in 1603.