Mark Gibbs creates animal sculptures, exciting mixed media paintings, oil paintings and watercolours. He brings a fresh vision to landscape painting and abstracts.

Perhaps prompted by the threat to the arctic, Marks recent work has taken on a Northern theme depicting creatures of forest and tundra and referencing prehistoric art.

Animals such as; bison and reindeer are presented as shamanic guardian spirits, beasts of power with ancient antecedence, yet increasingly isolated, inhabiting a diminished, fractured environment.

The work explores the contrast between the strength and resilience of these animals and the fragility of life.

Mark's work is characterised by an interest in the colour and texture of landscape, and in natural processes. Much of his work is influenced by his love of travel, to places as diverse as Norway, India, Sri Lanka, Morocco and Brazil.

He says, "Ambiguity is another characteristic, some of the work hovers between 2D and 3D. Are they colourful paintings on thick shaped canvas; or shallow, wall sculpture?"