Based in London and Suffolk, Mark works in a wide range of media from painting, drawing and printmaking, to large-scale architectural and ecclesiastical projects in stained glass and other materials. He has also produced images for several limited edition books, listed below.
His paintings often reflect his experience of the city in which he lives, from the parks, cemeteries and playing fields to the canals, gas installations and flyovers of West London. His pictures are evocative and personal responses to an urban landscape that becomes almost pastoral; a promised land of quiet havens and open spaces. In contrast, towering concrete and metal structures are rendered with a dynamic, cathedral-like elegance.
Mark’s work can also be viewed on www.markcazalet.co.uk
Playhouse oil on linen 31 x 31 cm 2005
The River Runs Through Us oil on linen 122 x 153 cm
Everyday Epiphany III oil on linen 50 x 40 cm
EDUCATION, AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES
| 2007 | West Dean College Summer School, artist in residence |
| 2004 | Palestine/Israel Pilgrimage with Biblelands, artist in residence |
| 2003 | Egypt Pilgrimage with Biblelands, artist in residence |
| 2001 | Assembly, South West Arts artist in residence at Bath Rugby Club |
| 1988-9 | Commonwealth Universities Scholarship: Baroda University, Gujerat, India |
| 1986-7 | French Consul National Studentship Award: L’Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris |
| 1986-7 | Awarded one-year residency at the Cite-Internationale-des-Arts, Paris |
| 1983-6 | Falmouth School of Art: BA Fine Art |
| 1982-3 | Chelsea School of Art: foundation course |
| 1977-82 | Stowe School, Bucks |
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
| 2008 | Everyday Epiphany, Beardsmore Gallery, London |
| 2006 | Seeing as Believing, Catmose Gallery, Rutland |
| 2005 | Travelling with open eyes, Guildford Cathedral |
| 2005 | On Shifting Ground, Images from Palestine & Israel, All Hallows by the Tower, London |
| 2004 | An Egyptian Apocrypha, St Katherine Kree, London |
| 2002 | Bath Rugby Residency Drawings, Museum of Rugby, Twickenham |
| 2001 | The Sound of Trees, Six Chapel Row Contemporary Art, Bath |
| 2000 | West London Stations of the Cross, Carden Gallery, Kensal Green Cemetery, London |
| 2000 | The Four Quartets, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University |
| 1998 | Cathedrals of Industry, Museum of London |
| 1996 | Paradoxes and Paradigms, Lichfield Cathedral |
| 1995 | Intangible Worlds, East West Gallery, Blenheim Crescent, London |
| 1995 | Royal Over-Seas League House, Edinburgh and London |
| 1994-6 | The Path to Calvary, Rocket Contemporary Art at The Gallery, Cork Street, London; touring to: Lincoln Cathedral, Usher Gallery, Lincoln; Winchester Cathedral; Lady Margaret Hall College Chapel, Oxford University |
| 1993 | Pictures out of India, The Nehru Centre, London |
| 1992 | Indian Rhythms, Wycombe Museum Gallery, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, Christopher Hull Gallery, London |
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
| 2007 | The Sunday Times Watercolour Competition, Mall Galleries, London |
| 2006 | Backyard beauties, Artspace, Southwell |
| 2006 | London Now: City of Hell, City of Heaven, Guildhall Art Gallery, London |
| 2005 | Faith, Castle Museum Gallery, Nottingham |
| 2004 | Visions of London, Artspace Gallery, London |
| 2004 | Seeing Salvation Now, Northlight Gallery, Huddersfield |
| 2004 | Presence Images of Christ for the third millennium, St Paul’s Cathedral, London |
| 2002 | Falling Leaves, Salisbury Festival, Salisbury & South Wiltshire Museum |
| 2002 | Huntington Art Award Exhibition, Royal College of Art London |
| 2002 | Summer in the City, England & Co, London |
| 2001 | National Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, London |
| 2001 | Nature from Wood, Victoria Art Gallery, Bath Assembly |
| 2000 | Stations: The New Sacred Art, Blythburgh Church, Suffolk |
| 2000 | The Salutation, Nicholas Mynheer, Roger Wagner and Richard Webb, St Andrew’s Oxford |
| 2000 | Blake’s Contemporaries, Scholar Fine Art, London |
| 1999 | Land Marks (3-person show), Jill George Gallery, London |
| 1999 | The Light of the World, City of Edinburgh Gallery and Museum |
| 1999 | A Focus for Prayer, Six Chapel Row Contemporary Art, Bath |
| 1998 | Royal Over-Seas League Fifteenth Annual Open Exhibition, London |
| 1998 | Cheltenham Open Drawing Exhibition, touring show |
| 1997 | Poetry of Place, Bury St Edmunds Art Gallery, Suffolk |
| 1996 | Art in 8 Northern Churches, with Richard Webb, Durham Diocese tour and Reg Vardy Gallery, University of Sunderland |
| 1996 | The Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London |
| 1995 | Third Drawing Show, Jill George Gallery, London |
| 1994 | Rexel Derwent Drawing Exhibition, Cheltenham College of Art |
| 1994 | Royal Over-Seas League Eleventh Annual Open Exhibition, London |
| 1993 | Images of Christ, Northampton Museum & Art Gallery and St Paul’s Cathedral |
| 1992 | The Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London |
| 1992 | Contemporary Art Society Art Market, Smith’s Galleries, London |
| 1991 | Images of Christ, Albemarle Gallery, London |
| 1990 | Pictures of Passiontide, with Albert Herbert and Richard Webb, St Marylebone Church |
| 1988 | Death: Contemporary Visions, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge |
COLLECTIONS
Birmingham City Library
Edward James Foundation, West Dean College
Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge
University of Alberta
University of Iowa
British Council, Bombay, India
Coopers & Lybrand Deloitte, London
Getty Centre, California, USA (The Path to Calvary, book)
Guildhall Art Gallery, London
Hammersmith and Fulham Borough Council Collection
Hounslow and Spelthorne Community and Mental Health Service Trust
Indian High Commission, Nehru Centre, London
Kuwait National Collection
Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University
Methodist 20th-Century Art Collection
Museum of London
Museum of Rugby, Twickenham, London
Taunton and Somerset Hospital
University of Surrey, Roehampton
Victoria Art Gallery Bath
PUBLICATIONS
Everyday Epiphany
Beardsmore Gallery 2008
Text by Dr Frances Spalding
Green Blades
The Old Stile Press, 2008
Limited Edition 200 copies
24 Original wood and linocuts by Mark Cazalet
Set against Thomas Hardy’s poetry 1912-13
Faith
Nottingham city Museum and Galleries, 2005
Group show, interviews with Richard Davey
The Sound of the Trees
Six Chapel Row Contemporary Art, 2001
Text by Canon Richard Davey
Cathedrals of Industry
Museum of London, 1998
Text by Mark Cazalet
Intangible Worlds
East West Gallery, 1995
Edition of 2000 copies Text by Dr Frances Spalding
The Path To Calvary
The Rocket Press, 1994
Letterpress printed limited edition 180 copies
Text Sr Frances Makower, Linocut prints by Mark Cazalet
Mark Cazalet: A New Sacred Art
Rocket Contemporary Art, 1994
Letterpress printed limited edition 875 copies
Text Revd Richard Davey
Kensal Rise Gas Holders: Sunrise, Midday and Evening oil on linen 122 x 248 cm 1996