Mark Venice
Mark Venice was born in London and raised in Denmark .He graduated with honours from Plymouth College of Art and Design and worked in London as a photographer and designer. He lived in India for seven years where he headed ' The Project ' showcasing Western art and design around Delhi. In California he co-founded Opuzen Design and developed and patented a new paint medium,Metrachrome. He received first prize for innovation at the Sgarbossa Art Foundation in Italy. Since 1988 he has been painting full time and his works hang in many public spaces as well as private collections worldwide. " Mark Venice works in abstraction with paintings that are compellingly seductive in surface texture. They represent a space where time and space are eternally suspended, and where colour and shapes, symbolic of spiritual experience float in a universe of all prevailing harmony "