Tim Martin’s 2025 work Ringed Ripples and Ridges explores the journey from the artist’s home to the Somerset Rural Life Museum. It takes as its starting point geological time, focusing on five elevated places that are familiar to the artist along the route. Staple Hill, the highest point in the Blackdown Hills (and the artist’s favourite trig point), the hill fort of Castle Neroche, Burrow Mump, the end of the Poldens at Walton Hill and Glastonbury Tor.

Tim Martin often uses both Geological and Ordnance Survey mapping data as ‘ways in’ to making work, here the filmic 16:9 format ratio has also become important to creating rich imagery that links the process of making to personal memory, history and experiences of a place. Making repeated visits over time to record and write, his works extend across a variety of media forms from film, painting to printmaking.