Mark Elsmore RI | Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours

Chain of Command

90 x 71 cm
Multi-Storey

95 x 60 cm
Omelette Arnold Bennett

67 x 61 cm
Salford Boing!

95 x 74 cm
Underground Innards

92 x 73 cm
Embankment Appointment

95 x 71 cm

About Mark Elsmore RI

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Biography

Artist's Statement

"A successful painting is an enduring painting. The completed work is never truly finished because the viewer continues to explore their own interpretation.”

Method of Working

I work best when I have a reason to paint. If I can find or make-up an accompanying story all the better, it keeps me interested. I like to transform ‘the ordinary’ into ‘the epic’. The Potteries continues to fascinate me but I’m not a slave to my locality, Hanley or Alderney, Burslem or Berlin, I’m searching for the story and a way to paint it

Biographical Details

Born in The Potteries, North Staffordshire, Mark has a six-generation family connection with the Pottery Industry. “Stoke-on-Trent has always been a place of artistry, to continue that tradition is a privilege. I think the techniques of those pottery painters must influence a style.” A self-taught artist, Mark is based in the Staffordshire Moorlands and has been painting professionally since 1994.

Society Memberships

Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours

Other Society Memberships

Royal Birmingham Society of Artists

Wirral Society of Arts

Scholarships, Awards, Prizes

The Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours Winsor & Newton Award 2018

The Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours Frank Herring Easel Award 2017

Grosvenor Museum and Art Gallery, Chester Open 2017 (first prize)

Royal Watercolour Society (Winsor & Newton prize 2015)

Sunday Times Watercolour Competition 2012 (first prize)

Wirral National (first prizes in 2012 and 2004)

RBSA Members & Associates (Coley Tilley Prize 2009)

Potteries Open 2008 (first prize)

Keele University Three Counties (first prizes in 2004, 2001 and 1999)

Stafford Open 2001 (The Paper House Prize)

Leek Festival of Art 1995 (Maimeri Award)

Other exhibitions

Selected for the Sunday Times Watercolour Competition on sixteen occasions (1992-2017)

Royal Watercolour Society

Discerning Eye

New English Art Club;

Royal Institute of Oil Painters

The Grosvenor Museum and Art Gallery, Chester;

Manchester Academy

Royal Birmingham Society of Artists

Wirral Society of Arts.

Publications

Mark was featured in the Artist Portfolio of the Art of Watercolour magazine (December 2016 issue)