Mark Godwin studied at the Central School of Art in London and graduated from the Royal College of Art in 1982 with a MA in Printmaking. He then worked for several years as a copperplate printmaker before moving into an ACME studio in east London, where he combined his skill as a printmaker with his passions for painting and collage. Mark’s confident use of colour and complex compositions, often on a large scale, have become the hallmarks of his work. Following a move from London to East Sussex in 2000, Mark’s work is now firmly rooted in landscape, particularly the sea and coastline. He exhibits regularly both in the UK and abroad and his work is held in numerous private and corporate collections.
Mark Godwin takes an intuitive approach to landscape painting, embracing trial and error, and letting the visible signs of that unpredictable creative journey remain on the canvas - brushstrokes made, corrections following corrections - consciously allowing the qualities of paint to override the logic of representation so that the image evolves into something familiar, yet not quite. The resulting works are paintings of the imagination, paintings that explore the poetic idea of landscape, and our collective memory of it. He paints on both paper and canvas, and today his print making activity is centred on making small suites of unique monoprints.