About Mark Beaven
Mark is a painter and printmaker who lives in Nottingham, UK. He trained at Chelsea and Camberwell Schools of Art in London, and has an honours degree in Painting and a Masters Degree in Printmaking. He specialises in figure and portrait painting, and also etching. His work is inspired by both the observed world and allegorical subjects.
Mark has shown his paintings extensively both in the U.K. and abroad, including the Hayward Gallery, the Whitechapel Gallery, The South Bank Centre, London, and Chicago International Art Fair. His pictures can be found in many private collections. He is a Fellow of the Nottingham Society of Artists. Mark has exhibited his prints nationally, including the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers, Bankside Gallery, London.
His works are held in private and corporate collections in the UK and abroad.
Selected Exhibitions
2016 Royal Birmingham Society of Artists’ Prize Exhibition
2006 Derby City Open, Derby City Art Gallery
2005 Nottingham Castle Open, Nottingham
2005 Nottingham Society of Artists, First Prize winner: W.S. Holbrook Trust
2003 Fellows Exhibition, Nottingham Society of Artists
2002 Nottingham Castle Open, Nottingham
1999 Tregoning Fine Art, Ashbourne, Derbyshire
1997 Air Gallery, Dover Street, London
1994 Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham
1992 Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers, Bankside Gallery, London
1992 “Vision 20/20:an exhibition in Print, London Ecology Centre
1992 The 20th Century British Art Fair, Royal College of Art, London
1992 Print Europe, Business Design Centre, London
1991 Galerie zur Alten Deutschen Schule, Thun, Switzerland
1991 Le Chat Noir Gallery, Covent Garden, London (solo show)
1991 Harvey Nichols, London
1990 De Graff Fine Art, Chicago, U.S.A.
1990 Bláson Gallery, London
1989 Chicago Internationl Art Fair
1989 William Hobbayne Gallery, London
1988 The Oxford Gallery, Oxford
1988 The South Bank Picture Show, Festival Hall, London
1987 Festival of Arts, Kiele, Germany
1986 International Contemporary Art Fair, Olympia, London
1986 Jablonski Gallery, London
1985 The Religious Spirit in Contemporary Art, Westminster Cathedral. London
1983 The Whitechapel Open, Whitechapel Gallery, London
1982 The Hayward Annual: “British Drawing”, Hayward Gallery, London
1981 The South London Gallery, London
To view Mark’s art teaching website, please visit www.nottinghamartstudio.co.uk