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Richmond's Premier
Artist's Co-op
Artist's Co-op
| 1305 West Main Street, Richmond VA 23220. Telephone (804) 353 8343 |
Mark Kettlewell
Mark was born in Yorkshire, UK, in 1967 and moved to the United
States in 2004 to marry his wife, Bonnie, who has lived in Richmond
for the past 15 years. He joined Uptown Gallery in late 2005 and is
currently the gallery’s webmaster. He is related by marriage on
Bonnie’s side of the family to one of the Gallery’s founders, the late
Virginia Poehler.
Mark has been interested in drawing and painting from an early age
and, as a child, was constantly drawing pictures and inventing
cartoons, especially comic parodies of the superhero genre, in which
he would cruelly feature himself and certain classmates as “heroes”
and “villains”.
In addition to his interest in comics and cartoons, he also nurtured a
serious aspect to his work and, during his school art career, he often
astounded his tutors by his ready grasp of figure and form and was
considered to be quite advanced for his age. The culmination of his
achievements at this stage in his education won him the esteemed
high school art prize.
Upon entering college, Mark chose to pursue his interest in the
sciences and especially geology, in which he majored and passed
with honours in 1988. He continued his education by completing his
MSc in Organic Geochemistry at the University of Newcastle-upon-
Tyne (UK) in 1990, where he combined geology with his love for
organic chemistry.
Mark worked for a while in the oil industry before moving into software
development, receiving his MSc in Software Engineering in 1994.
Although he worked in software design for ten years, he found the
working environment stifling and was bored and unfulfilled.
After meeting Bonnie on a trip to Ireland in 2002, he moved to America
to devote his life full time to the pursuit of painting and writing.
States in 2004 to marry his wife, Bonnie, who has lived in Richmond
for the past 15 years. He joined Uptown Gallery in late 2005 and is
currently the gallery’s webmaster. He is related by marriage on
Bonnie’s side of the family to one of the Gallery’s founders, the late
Virginia Poehler.
Mark has been interested in drawing and painting from an early age
and, as a child, was constantly drawing pictures and inventing
cartoons, especially comic parodies of the superhero genre, in which
he would cruelly feature himself and certain classmates as “heroes”
and “villains”.
In addition to his interest in comics and cartoons, he also nurtured a
serious aspect to his work and, during his school art career, he often
astounded his tutors by his ready grasp of figure and form and was
considered to be quite advanced for his age. The culmination of his
achievements at this stage in his education won him the esteemed
high school art prize.
Upon entering college, Mark chose to pursue his interest in the
sciences and especially geology, in which he majored and passed
with honours in 1988. He continued his education by completing his
MSc in Organic Geochemistry at the University of Newcastle-upon-
Tyne (UK) in 1990, where he combined geology with his love for
organic chemistry.
Mark worked for a while in the oil industry before moving into software
development, receiving his MSc in Software Engineering in 1994.
Although he worked in software design for ten years, he found the
working environment stifling and was bored and unfulfilled.
After meeting Bonnie on a trip to Ireland in 2002, he moved to America
to devote his life full time to the pursuit of painting and writing.
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"I am a professional
artist, originally from
the United Kingdom but
now living and working
in the USA. I paint
primarily in oils though
I also work in acrylics,
graphite and pen and
ink.
Mood and emotion
feature strongly in all
my work, for in this my
voice and spirit speak
together. Art is beauty,
love, yearning, and
hope, but it is also
about the darker
aspects of our shared
human experience. In
my work I endeavor to
capture both the light
and the dark, the rough
and the smooth. For in
life nothing is black or
white, just shades of
gray."
artist, originally from
the United Kingdom but
now living and working
in the USA. I paint
primarily in oils though
I also work in acrylics,
graphite and pen and
ink.
Mood and emotion
feature strongly in all
my work, for in this my
voice and spirit speak
together. Art is beauty,
love, yearning, and
hope, but it is also
about the darker
aspects of our shared
human experience. In
my work I endeavor to
capture both the light
and the dark, the rough
and the smooth. For in
life nothing is black or
white, just shades of
gray."
A Sample of Mark's Work
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