Martha M. Deming, born in the High Peaks of New York State's Adirondack Mountains, is a graduate of Skidmore College and Syracuse University. Now retired from a career in art education, she is devoting herself to drawing and painting full-time. 

Ms. Deming works mostly in watercolors using techniques involving wet paper, big brushes, lots of water and lots of pigment. She also enjoys working with soft pastels. Her favorite subjects are flowers, landscapes, and animals. Her work is interpretive and impressionistic following her belief that an expressive painting should capture mood and feeling through light, color, composition and choice of subject matter. 

She has studied with artists Guy Corriero, John Gallucci, Judi Betts, Brian Atyeo, Thomas Sgouros, Ann Pember, Christina Debarry, Christine Debrosky, Skip Lawrence and Christopher Schink. She finds inspiration in the works of Georgia O'Keefe, the French Impressionists and Abstract Expressionists as well as those of contemporary artists including Wolf Kahn, Andrzej Skorut, Ted Larsen, John Axton, Karen Frey and Noriko Hasegawa.

She is represented by Fynmore Studio and gallery of Boonville, NY, and Adirondack Art of Barneveld, NY. She exhibits regularly in group and solo shows and has won many awards. She is a signature member of the Central New York Watercolor Society. She both takes and teaches workshops every year.

Ms. Deming maintains a studio at her home on 140 acres of woods and meadows in in Remsen, NY where she lives with several cats, dogs and horses.