Biography

• Nov 2024 In Harm’s Way Electro Studio

• Sept 2024 Coastal Currents Walter wolf Gallery

• July 2024 Now that you are here Electro Studio

• Jun 2024 Swap Shop Cake Rooms

• May 2024 Spirit of Invention Electro Studios

• March 2024 None Of The Above Group Show Electro Studios

• Dec 2023More Mono Than Chrome (Solo Exhibition)

• Dec 2023 Group show at Electro Studios,

• Nov 2023 - Affordable Art - Rogue Gallery

• Oct 2023 - Do you see what I sea? - Cake Room Hastings

• Sep 2023 - In Harms Way - Electro Studios, St Leonards

• Sep 2023 - Coastal Currents Arts Festival

• Aug 2023 - Abstract Group Exhibition

• Jul 2023 - Hastings Art School Exhibition

• May 2023 - Remains - Nottingham

• Mar 2023 - All the fair of the Unfair - St Leonards on Sea

• Jul 2022 - Started writing about art, music and chess for the Hastings Independent Press

• Apr 2022 - Moved to St Leonard’s, East Sussex

• May 2021 - Opened the Brighton house as part of Artists Open Houses

• Apr 2020 - Exhibitions were cancelled.

• Jan 2020 - The new year heralds a materials shift for the process-based work, an expansion into oil paint on canvas, including larger works of 1.6 x 1.6 metres

• Nov 2019 - Following a summer experimenting with gestural art, the turn of the year is spent looking and process and revisiting acrylic painting on paper

• Jun 2019 - MA Fine Art Interim show at Brighton University showing oil paintings, digital print and large scale biro drawings

• May 2019 - Exhibiting in a group show in London, Artists Open Houses in Brighton and 'The Clunker' travelling art vending machine

• May 2019  - Diagnosis of dyslexia and dyspraxia, bringing a skeleton out of the closet and onto the canvas

• Sep 2018 - Commenced MA in Fine Art at Brighton University

• Nov 2017 - A move from London to Brighton and a new studio

• 2016 - 2018 Teaching painting, drawing and sculpture

• 2017 - Studio at ASC Studios Brixton

• 2016 - Studio at ASC Studios Taplow House Camberwell

• 2015 - Studio at Euroart, Seven Sisters, London

• 2012 - 2015 Received a 2:1 Bachelor of Arts in Fine Art degree at the Art Academy, London

• 1978 - 2012 A variety of jobs including many years in horticulture

• 1967 - 1978 Mark was at school in Warlingham, Surrey

• Aug 1962 Mark was born in Purley, Surrey to Charles and Pat Walter