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
In Harm’s Way Part 2 - Private View Fri 15 November 2024 6-9pm Exhibition 16-17 November 2024 11 am-5 pm. Electro Studios, 5 Seaside Road, St Leonards-On-Sea, TN38 0AL
Following on from Last year's successful show 'In Harms Way' renowned artists Mark Walter, Oli Spleen & Wolfgang Dubieniec return to present to you 'In Harms Way Part 2' exhibiting together once again in the downstairs space this time. New mixed media works, video, film and live music from Oli Spleen at the private view.