Martin de Lang is an automotive artist of rare talent and shy demeanour. Loves sketching, painting portraits of cars yet often isn’t sure about meeting and greeting fans.
‘I get very nervous, a bit uncomfortable’, says the artist with thousands of paintings, and prints, of hundreds of cars, racers and road cars, to his credit. He’d rather be hiding away, working in a little studio under his Queensland house, researching and filling another canvas.
Martin’s more recent works grace the programs of Australia’s Motorclassica. Older works are found across the world, England in particular. And while a stunning print of Norm Beechey’s HT Monaro at Warwick Farm is among the more popular here in Australia, the artist’s favourite subjects are German racers; Silver Arrow Mercedes-Benz and Auto Unions with the…
