Biography
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