forthcoming exhibition

woodland drawings of suffolk and provence

walking and drawing in west london

teaching

mali prints

greenblades

ecclesiastical commissions

forthcoming exhibition

A Plot of Ground, chalk drawings and intaglio prints by Mark Cazalet and Jason Hicklin

Exhibition dates 15th june – 17th july 2010,
open tuesdays to saturdays 11.00 – 5.00pm (or by appointment)

Private views: sunday 13th June 12 – 4pm & wednesday 16th june – 8.30pm

Beardsmore gallery
22 Prince of Wales Road
Camden
London NW5 3LG

tel: 020 7485 0923

www.beardsmoregallery.com

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woodland drawings of suffolk and provence

Rachel's Covet Winter, 2010		Rachel's Covet Summer, 2009

During the last two years I have spent protracted periods sitting in isolated woodlands in Suffolk and Provence making chalk drawings on coloured papers.

The results turned out to be more a record of the sensory experience than topographical descriptions; understood through the sounds, scents and atmospheres.

To look and listen in stillness and then interpret the experience through colour, is a meditative act whose interiority is both mesmeric and regenerative.

It does not feel like a retreat from the world so much as a slow epiphany akin to Martin Heidegger's sense of Lichtung, the discovery of potential space.

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walking and drawing in west london

Kensal Green Cemetary, 2009

I have resumed my practice of walking and drawing in the immediate vicinity of my studio and home. Setting off without a plan or premeditated subject my intention is to find the unexpected in the local urban landscape. By direct observation to see the extraordinary emerge from the quotidian. As with the woodland drawings the solitary nature of this investigation and the role of light/shadow play a great part in this process.

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teaching

Mark is running a number of courses over the next year including:

The vision of colour; 9 –11 July 2010

Capturing a sense of place; 16 – 20 August 2010

For more information, visit: www.westdean.org.uk

For more information, visit: www.artsinprovence.com

Prince's Drawing School
Drawing at the National Gallery, with Susan Wilson and Mark Cazalet;
Mondays (except bank holidays) 10am – 5pm, 19 April – 21 June 2010

Inside and out, life drawing from the model in Kensington Gardens and the Kensington Palace Studios; Tuesdays 10am – 4pm, 25 May – 22 June 2010

Life drawing; Wednesday evenings 6.30 – 9pm at Kensington Palace Studios,
26 May – 23 June 2010

For more information, visit: www.princesdrawingschool.org

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mali prints

A suite of six new linocut and chine colle prints are currently in production, all images taken from last year's trip with my family to Mali. Printed on Japanese paper each measure 44 x 56 cm, from an edition of 25.

The Grand Mosque, Djenne, 2009

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green blades

Published in 2008. Large format book of Thomas Hardy's poems 1912-1913, set with Mark Cazalet's lino and woodcut prints. The price for each remaining copy (of the edition of 200) is £295, plus postage and packing, the Special Edition copies nos 1-10 are sold out.

Please contact Frances McDowall at The Old Stile Press for further information and sales: oldstile@dircon.co.uk or view images on line at www.oldstilepress.com

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ecclesiastical commissions

I am currently engaged on four ecclesiastical commissions:

I am the Gate - St Mary’s, Stowting

Women of the Bible - Frances Bardsley School for Girls Chapel, Romford

The Church of the Epiphany, Doha

The Community of the Resurrection, Mirfield

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