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Artist's Statement | Pastel Galleries | Home | |||||||||||||||
Award-winning artist Mark Ivan Cole has spent most of his life in or near the mountains. He has lived in the Washington and Oregon for nearly twenty years. He and his wife, Ping Hsu, spend as much time as possible exploring the landscape anywhere Nature's beauty can be found. They currently live in the Central Valley in California where they've been enjoying the easy access to Yosemite, the Coastal Range and Sequoia/Kings Canyon. Mark was working primarily in colored pencil and alkyd paint until Ping gave him a set of NuPastels. Since then, he has created a body of work in soft pastel celebrating rocks, trees, water and sky. Recently he has been experimenting with oil pastel as a quick, easy-to-carry alternative. Mark's favoirte pastels are made by Sennelier and Mount Vision, but he will use any brand with rich, smooth color, including Rembrandt, Derwent and Berol NuPastels. Most of the pieces in this online gallery were painted on various shades of Canson MiTientes or Fabriano Elle Erte paper. Between them, Mark and Ping have two sons and two daughters. Mark also composes, records and performs music; and writes non-fiction, fiction, poetry and prose. |
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* Mistlin Gallery Spring Show 2009 - Modesto, CA Awards: First Place - Pastel Category Honorable Mention - Pastel Category *Turlock Spring Show 2009 - Turlock, CA Turlock Community Art Gallery (ongoing) - Turlock CA *Northwest Landscape Art - Columbia Gorge Gallery, Hood River, OR Valentine's Day Challenge - Columbia Gorge Gallery, Hood River, OR *denotes juried show |