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Mark Monsarrat |
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ARTIST'S STATEMENT: My interest in
landscape painting extends from the 19th-century Romantic painters
like Bierstadt, Church, Keith, Cole, Moran, Inness, through the early
California Impressionist painters such as Payne, Wendt, Redmond, Braun
and Bischoff, the Arts and Crafts movement, and on to modern influences.
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Pigeon Point Lighthouse, 16 x 12 |
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Red Barn and Palm, 16 x 20
ARTIST'S BACKGROUND: Born in 1950 in Columbus, Ohio, interested early in making pictures, Mark sold his first painting at the age of 14 and at 16 juried into the 1967 Ohio State Fair. At 30, after brief stints in engineering and the corporate world (master's degrees in both), Mark pursued the artist's life in historic San Francisco, attending various art schools (BFA, California College of the Arts), numerous workshops, and more recently wintering in Phoenix, Arizona. From 1984, over the next 18 years as a San Francisco Street Artist, Mark produced intricate ink-and-watercolor drawings and prints, later more whimsical small watercolors of the city, the California Missions, and Wine Country. Starting in 1996, Mark returned to post-graduate painting studies, later showing larger pieces at weekend art festivals and galleries. On to major landscapes in oils and acrylics, Mark Monsarrat is more recently concentrating on smaller plein-air oils.
GALLERIES, JURIED SHOWS, and AWARDS: 2008:
"Best of Mare Island" (Oil Painting), 1st Annual Flyway
Plein-Air Festival, Vallejo, CA;
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