Martin’s desire to capture the essence of humanity and nature is central to her engaging work. To underscore how important it is, she refers to herself as a painting anthropologist. Nevertheless, she deals with the same problems that have obsessed painters throughout time—arresting movement, exploring the expressive potential of human form, and arranging bodies in space in novel ways.

America Martin featured on the cover of interior designer Melanie Turner’s first book

Inviting Interiors: A Fresh Take on Beautiful Rooms Hardcover – March 2, 2021

by Melanie Turner (Author), Mali Azima (Photographer)

The first book from Atlanta interior designer Melanie Turner, whose pretty work has a modern edge.

America’s embrace of the influence of art history acknowledges a wide range of artistic influence, including that of Matisse, Picasso, Leger and Chagall, but in emotional reach and painterly vocabulary are very much rooted in contemporary life. One cannot help but recognize the way she rapidly sets herself apart from her peers and propels beauty, vulnerability, refinement and poetry into our world with astonishing precision and force.