“Mark looks long and hard and with great clarity at his subjects but manages somehow to suggest the immediacy of a glance. Scattered objects carry weight, not symbolic but emotional, so that what seems incidental becomes telling.”
“Then there’s the light. He’s interested in it, not just as a vital source, but as an additional character, which, again makes his paintings so present. He captures the fleeting moment the light hits the glass or face and makes it vivid and integral; alive.”
Tamsin Oglesby
Nat West Art Prize Shortlisted 1987
Hunting Art Prize 1998 /winner 2000/ 2003
Discerning Eye Competition 1998 / 1999 / 2001
Founders Prize
2014 / 2015 / 2016 / 2017 / 2020
Mentors prize 2019
Laing Art Prize 1999
R A Summer show 2001 / 2003 / 2006 / 2020
BP Portrait Award 2000 /2001 commended 2002
Threadneedle Art Prize 2010
Lynne Stainer’s Art Prize 2013
Sunday Times Watercolour Competition 2016 / 2019 / First prize 2020
Wells Art Contemporary 2018
Royal Society of Portrait Painters 2020
Andelli Art
“Figures and faces” 2018
“Perfectly Formed” 2019
Christmas show 2020
Flowers Gallery “Small is Beautiful” 2019 / 2020 / 2021 / 2022 / 2023 / 2024
Long and Ryle Christmas show 2020
Beaux Art 1990/1992 and 1998
Long and Ryle
2000 / 2002 / 2004 / 2005 / 2007 / 2008 / 2010 / 2015 / 2022
Paul Smith Westbourne Grove 2019