MARK DUNFORD

“My primary concern is looking. I draw to comprehend the amazing interaction of forms, surfaces, spaces and shapes. I try to understand appearances by building relationships and strive to make ‘contact’ with their intangible and continuously changing presence. Colour is used in different ways; it might be copied or adjusted to work. I am driven by how beautiful something is and I attempt to balance observation, invention and imagination.”

Mark Dunford is a painter who works directly from his subject, using extreme drawing methods and charged emotional colour. He studied painting with artist tutors Euan Uglow and Patrick George at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London.

His awards include the Robert Ross Scholarship from the Slade and the Richard Ford Award from the Royal Academy of Arts to study in Madrid and the Young Artists’ Award from the Royal Institute of Painters in watercolour.
Mark is an elected member of The London Group and he exhibits regularly, in the UK and internationally. He lives and paints in Cornwall and has taught painting and drawing since 1988 and is currently a Programme Team Leader for Art & Design