Mary Martin is a painter who lives in the Tamar valley.

She studied at the West of England College of Art in Bristol, Gloucester College of Art in Cheltenham, and the Royal Academy Schools in London, graduating in 1975. In 1984 she made a documentary film which was shown on BBC1, entitled 'Daffodils, Bullion and Steam'.

Mary and her husband, James Evans, have rescued from extinction varieties of apples and cherries which were once widespread throughout the Tamar valley. The National Trust at Cotehele has replicated their collection of over 200 cultivars of cherries, apples, plums and pears.

Mary has held exhibitions at Plymouth City Museum & Art Gallery, Royal Institute of Cornwall in Truro, Gallery Tresco in the Isles of Scilly, and further afield in London.

She is a Bard of the Cornish Gorsedd.