Tracy Martin

Tracy has been dealing with paraplegia and has been a full-time wheelchair user for the past 36 years due to a car accident in 1989. So Not Me is written from the heart of her own life experiences, the kind of book she wishes she’d read all those years ago when she tried to make sense of her world as she lay on a Stryker frame bed, with a 7lb weight hanging from calipers screwed into her skull. The medical attempt to piece her broken body back together again.
She readily admits that she’s not only a bit of an enigma, but also a rolling stone, having lived in Co Monaghan, Co
Wicklow and Co Galway over the years. These days she finds herself back at her roots in her home county again.
In 2015 she moved to Madrid for 5 years, alone with no knowledge of the Spanish language. That’s the kind of woman Tracy is. Adventure resides within her. It’s had to, as does creativity.
She paints with both words and oils. Her paintings never turn out as they are supposed to, but instead evolve to accommodate her mistakes.

Just like life (or so she tells herself anyhow!)