Mark Hollis

I am currently a fine artist, Happily Living and working in the wonderful City Of Bristol. U.K
I have sold work all over the world including: USA, Europe, and Australia.
My method allows a process of using my own scanned images of earlier prepared paintings,
Found, and Digital Photographs. This process can take a long time, as I spend much of the preparatory sessions, planning (the) exact positioning of objects, in relation to colour and weight.
This can lead to prolonged bouts of going a bit bonkers (sound familiar?)..
Patiently moving an object a few Millimeter's here .. then a few Millimeter's there,
as I descend into a Black"Art" Hole, then Five hours later moving it back! or just abandoning it... muttering "Why do i do this, every time..?"
..Oh Well.
I have a lot of Ideas that never, ever, make the grade. My "Art ideas" Folder is, err, FULL. (For now).
A lot of the image structures that I use are a result from my walks in Bristol, Dartford, Thamesmead, Avonmouth,Essex, etc.
A certain Patina on concrete may take my eye, or I will obsess over an angle I find on a building, or light bouncing off a smokey mirrored, glass fronted, Monolith. (I kid you not).
Once I am hooked on an aspect of an image I can then find a new ...

BTEC Fashion Illustration
BTEC Graphic design

2011. "Being Colour" (With Jonathan Jefferies) CenterSpace Gallery, Bristol.
2011. Urban Portrayal , (Group) The Incident Room , The Island, Bristol.
2012. ArtSpace LifeSpace, The Old Baths Bristol. Group Show.
2012. "Sky Blue Grey" (With Lisa Donovan) The Parlour Showrooms, Clifton, Bristol.
2012. "It's all to much" (Group) Gallery End of year group show.
2013.
2014. Hollis Art. (Solo) YHA Bristol.
2014. The World Domination Art Collective Schloss Blumenthal In Bavaria. Germany. Group Show.