Mark Jessett - Drawings & Paintings

Website

http://www.markjessett.com

Relationship status

married

College / University

Goldsmiths College

Program

Fine Art

Graduation

July 1, 1996

Member type

Artist

If you're an artist, what kind of art do you make?

Drawing, Painting

I am...

an artist who makes drawings and paintings. From 1993-1996 I studied Fine Art at Goldsmiths’ College, London. Now I live and work in Warwickshire.

About my artwork

My work features loose, elliptical forms that appear frozen in movement. Some shapes are barely complete, while others appear solid and fully formed; they draw our attention or remain obscure. There is abundance, confusion, emptiness and calm.

The drawing suggests very simple narratives; the forms share a common direction, there is a sense of movement, there was a beginning and there will be an end. The viewer is free to imagine the pace of their movement, their origin and their demise.

The activity of drawing - the exploration of line, colour, transparency and opacity - underpins this. Tension and harmony appear between the well-defined shapes, faint marks and mistakes. Opacity and translucence bring levels of weight and depth. Presence and near-absence are invoked, so the forms become notional entities appearing and disappearing.

Artists I like

Hidekazu Tanaka, Gary Hume, Minako Nishiyama, Hondartza Fraga, Roger Hiorns, Fiona Rae, Mali Morris, Biggs and Collings, Michael Day, Peter Blake, Richard Hamilton, Richard Diebenkorn, Mark Grotjahn, Karla Black, Kristin Baker, Helen Frankenthaler, Yuko Nasa, Klari Reis, Rosemarie Fiore, Gareth Haynes, Max Hymes, Ernesto Neto, Jorge Pardo, Paula Scher

Interests

Drawing and painting. Commissions. Opportunities.

What exhibitions are good at the moment?

Visit the TAG Fine Arts stand at the London Original Print Fair, 19 - 21 April 2011, Royal Academy of Arts, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1J 0BD
www.londonprintfair.com

Centre of the artworld:

nowhere and everywhere