Mark S J Shirley ( BA HONS )

Hi, I'm Mark, I teach Painting and Drawing to people with Mental Health Difficulties.

I achieved a BA (HONS )at Coventry University - in the UK - and learnt fuck all!

I'm Inspired by Language ( painterly and verbal ) Facial Expressions, Movement,Time, the Surreal and Colour.

I'm a figurative painter, who treads the fine line between figuration and abstraction.
My working mediums consist of acrylic, pastel & mixed media.
I love the process of painting, and the gestures it reflects back at me. Much of my work relies on accident & chance. How I develop it depends on what is presented before me,out of the chaos I create.

The subject matter usually consists of ' The Human condition ' and something that underscores social commentary, with the added anchor of wit and irony, but I don’t claim to be a mouthpiece for society, and I’m not trying to be moral or to tell a story.

Within my working practice, I find the problem being :

' trying to convey fact, in an non - illustrational way '

I advocate this quote, and despise illustration - it has no soul!

Please feel free to contact me regarding anything you may wish to ask, but not share on this site:

artypoet@msn.com

Favourite Artists - :
Francis Bacon, Frank Auerbach, Walter Sickert, De - Kooning, Richard Diebenkorn.