Mark Grieves

Mark, who was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, admits that he would dread to think what he would have ended up doing as a career if he hadn't been gifted in the arts of painting and drawing.

“The beauty of creating images that normally wouldn’t exist in real life is what art means to me”.

While most artists prefer to work from light to dark, he finds it more natural to work the other way around, from dark to light.

He always begins with a completely black canvas when he works exclusively in oils and gradually adds highlights until he achieves the ideal contrast.