Mark Hearld
Mark Hearld was born in York in 1974. He studied illustration at Glasgow School of Art and then following his lifelong fascination with the wildlife of Britain, he took an M.A. in Natural History Illustration at the Royal College of Art.
Hearld's distinctive, bold energetic style takes huge inspiration from the work of Picasso and British Artists of the 30's and 40's in particular Edward Bawden, Eric Ravilious and John Piper.
He works usind a variety of media - painting, collage, lithographic and linocut printing and hand painted ceramics.
Mark Hearld is currently exhibiting at Scarborough Art Gallery, offering a contempory take on a celebration of the influential collaboration of Bawden and Ravilious.
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