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Mark Somerville

Mark lives and works near Marlborough. He now combines his commercial photographic practise with a growing commitment to producing large limited edition photographic prints. He is currently working on a series of landscapes drawn from the surrounding Downland.

Much of this is defined by the fusion of natural landscape with products of human endeavour. Foreign bodies gradually bed into the countryside and appear unexceptional to us. Mark uses various lens based techniques to conjure up startling frames of the familiar encouraging us to look at them again with wonder.

Mark will be showing these images in a joint exhibition with Artist Blacksmith Melissa Cole at her Forge gallery as part of Marlborough Open Studios in July 2009.

Mark is one of 40 plus artists exhibiting work in the Marlborough Open Stuios, which runs each weekend from Sat 4th July to Sun 26th July. Marks studio will be not be open for viewing 4-5 July however. For more details visit:
www.marlboroughopenstudios.co.uk

Signed limited edition giclee prints are available of his work, and can be viewed during the Marlborough Open Studios 2009.

tel: (07968) 488631
mark@marksomerville.net
web: www.marksomerville.net