Mark Corfield has painted all his life, inspired by nature where he lives and works in agriculture. He splits his time between managing the farm and his love of art creation. 

His current innovative practice is pushing the boundaries of watercolours to uncharted areas. Using a synthetic paper, he allows the water and pigment, with his participation, to reveal their own properties and behaviour. 

The relationship between him and these elements, create transcendent, ethereal works that are connected to earth and the natural world. The pigment, paper and water being the elements that are the bridge between him and nature.  

His paintings only start to reveal their true mysteries when given more than a passing glance

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Mark Corfield.

Mark Corfield has painted all his life, inspired by nature where he lives and works in agriculture; he splits his time between managing the farm and his love of art creation. Mark has exhibited in the southwest, Plymouth, Bristol, Exeter and London.

His work earlier was more traditional and pictorial and he acquired the skills in various aspects of drawing and painting, Later he felt the need to be more expressive moving away from the representational, producing work that was from his imagination that could be described as “dreamlike” or even surreal. He still felt the need to go further. To this end he went to Plymouth college of Art and acquired a Painting Drawing and Printmaking degree.

His practice is now based on the exploration of the inherently natural characteristics and properties of watercolours and it’s affinity to countryside and the environment. Using a synthetic plastic paper, he allows the water and pigment, unhampered, to reveal their own properties and behaviour. The relationship between him and these elements, create transcendent ethereal works that are connected to earth and the natural world. The pigment, paper and water being the elements that are the bridge between him and nature.  

Leading principles in his work are colour, edges, fluidity, texture light and depth, but more importantly he is trying to abstract his concepts, to realize the power of simplicity. He feels that a work should say something and be connected to a basic need in all of us to find, in an almost primeval way, a link with our roots to the earth; a higher sense of connection to something bigger than ourselves.

Exhibitions-

Feb 2004 – Phoenix Art Centre

Feb 2017 -          Group Print Exhibition, Alfred University, New York

Feb 2016 - Group Print Exhibition, Alfred University, New York

May 2017- Group Exhibition Artmill gallery Pymouth.

June 2018. Cornucopia, Plymouth. 

Aug 2018. Clay Factory Ivybridge Devon.

Oct 2018. Hamilton House, Bristol. Cornucopia.

Nov 2018. no-format Gallery, Deptford, London.

April 2019 - Harbour house Kingsbridge.Devon

June 2019 - Brownston Gallery.Devon

July 2019 - Signpost 8, Cube 3, Plymouth University

October 2019 -, Doddiscombsliegh Art Show. Devon