Mark Grieves

Mark Grieves is one of just a handful of artists whose career has extended into more than one major UK art publishing house, the first being Washington Green Fine Art and the latter (so far) Buckingham Fine Art publishers. As a result, he has had his paintings successfully sold to galleries and customers throughout the UK, as well as overseas, since the noughties.

His series of limited editions prints created on paper, canvas & as hand finished editions, have gone on to ‘sell out’ and become highly sort after by the public. In more recent times, he has become a fully 'self-published' artist.

Mark was born in 1971 in North Shields in the county of Tyne & Wear, just eight miles (north-east) from Newcastle upon Tyne. Tyne & Wear is today famous for the giant ‘Angel Of The North’ sculpture by Antony Gormley.

You may not know this but many of our portfolio of artists originate or are based in Northern England - perhaps its important industrial past overshadows its immense history for artists & learning institutions thereof. Such artists reaching wide acclaim include Sarah Jane Szikora, Alexander Millar and Mackenzie Thorpe, to name just a few, as well as Mark himself!

North Shields was the place where his happy childhood memories were created, and a school where he earned a reputation for daydreaming and lacking concentration! Although his school reports weren’t always full of praise, they did reflect his interest & ability in art from an early age.

However, after having an argument with one his school art teachers, Mark eventually gave up on his dream of pursing art college & was not able to apply (perhaps being on the educator’s wrong side?), the teacher said his art portfolio was simply too thin!

Luckily for Mark he managed to find his way into the world of photography, which once again opened up a pathway to the ‘art world.’
His experience within photography didn't go to waste, and through his artwork today one can see where his innate skills & ‘artistic eye’ translate from one field to another.

Just like his photography, Mark is now able to imagine how to best fill the canvas with his artistic ideas. He can clearly conceptualise lines & shapes and the way that light, shadow & contrast are created by the paintbrush, aspects that feature heavily in his paintings.

The little human-esque figures in his paintings are always the last thing to be added and paraphrasing Mark’s own words ‘they are what bring my art to life.’

The artist can be found on Instagram.