About Mark

Mark Gibbons was born in Lyme Regis, Dorset, U.K. in 1949. He graduated from Hull University in 1972 with a B.A.Hons in Psychology and Philosophy. Following university he spent several years travelling and painting in America, Australia, New Zealand, Bali, Malaysia, Japan and Russia.

On his return he settled in the South Hams in Devon establishing a reputation as one of the Westcountry’s leading watercolourists. He teaches and demonstrates regularly in Art Societies in the area and has been invited to tutor on painting courses in the Channel Islands and Tuscany.

He has had two books published (by Bossiney Books) ’Mark Gibbons’s Dartmoor’ and ‘The South Devon Coast’

His paintings have been exhibited by the Royal Watercolour Society at the South Bank in London and he was commissioned by Devon County to do a painting for former President Mitterrand of France.

He loves camping and the outdoor life and uses a fisherman's tent for shelter when painting up on the exposed moors and his Old Town canadian canoe when exploring the creeks and backwaters round the coast. Recently he has been working on a series of much larger paintings using acrylic on canvas, all related to the theme of water and the way it breaks and reflects the light and everything around it.

As well as his enthusiasm for Landscape, Mark has spent many years involved in the running of a life-drawing group, producing (now and again) the odd half decent figure drawing. Few of these drawings have ever been exhibited in the galleries that usually show his work but a selection can be seen on this site.

In 2003 he moved to a ten acre small-holding in North Cornwall where he and his wife Angela live, with a huge veggie garden, chickens, geese and bees. Their property overlooks Bodmin Moor and is just a few miles from the wonderful rugged Cornish coast, a perfect place for an Landscape artist to live.