MARTIN Greenland is one of the giants on the arts stage.

His otherworldly, visionary landscapes have won him fans from far and wide and his next exhibition promises to be one of the most exciting the Windermere-based painter has staged for years.

Running from March 15 until June 15, at Tullie House, Second Novels charts Martin’s work since he won the illustrious John Moores Prize at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool in 2006.

His award-winning painting Before Vermeer’s Clouds - judged the best contemporary painting in the UK that year - is featured in the show, on loan from National Museums Liverpool.

The exhibition brings together several of Martin’s major works held in private collections, plus National Park 2007-2011, acquired by Tullie House in 2012, and a series of new paintings that includes Distant Village (Heaven), which will be aired for the first time.

Martin’s inspired by his experience of the British countryside, particularly the Lakes, and although his superb, surreal-like vistas may appear familiar at first glance they are complete inventions drawn from his memory and imagination.

Director of the Carlisle museum and art gallery, Hilary Wade, says Martin is one of Cumbria’s most important contemporary painters and the Tullie House team are delighted to host his latest exhibition: “Martin (Greenland) has a national reputation for his imaginative and invented landscape paintings many of which are inspired by the Lake District. It is therefore entirely appropriate that Tullie House should be hosting this exciting exhibition.”

Second Novels also includes a specially commissioned film interview with Martin by Eric Robson.

To tie in with the exhibition, Martin will give a talk about his work at Tullie House on Thursday, March 20 (2pm). Advance booking is advisable.

Tullie House is located on Carlisle’s Castle Street, Carlisle.

Open Monday-Saturday, 10am-4pm; Sunday, noon-4pm.

For further information telephone 01228-618718.