Baroda Residency
Sama, after the kite festival, inks on paper, 45 x 110cm, 2009
I spent the month of January in Baroda, West India, as an artist-in-residence. The residency was enabled by the extraordinary generosity of the artists Rekha Rodwittiya and Surendran Nair, who have created this opportunity for international artists to live and work with them. Intended as a period away from the pressures of ones daily life, they provided everything I needed, allowing the four weeks to became an intensive period of reflection, research and development. As well as being the perfect hosts, they set up a number of opportunities for me to meet many of India's current batch of celebrated artists, curators and gallerists. The trips to Ahemdabad and Mumbai were particularly important.
Returning to Baroda was also fantastic opportunity to revisit the University where I was an Association of Commonwealth Universities Scholar twenty years ago, and see so many friends still living in the city. I had a marvellous time, it felt as if I had come home and helped me realise the influence of Indian culture on my work which I now think I had not fully realised the significance of .
Most of my time was spent walking the streets and drawing, including making a number of panoramic images from the upper terrace of Rekha and Surendran's house, monkeys allowing!
Green Blades: In the spring of 2008, The Old Stile Press
published a limited edition, 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 £275, 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
Teaching: Mark is running a number of courses over the next year including:
A Sense of Place
May 17th - 22nd 2009
The Vision of Colour
September 27th - October 2nd 2009
Printed Landscapes in Lino
February 5th - 7th 2010
Experiencing colour
April 11th - 16th 2010
For more information, visit: www.westdean.org.uk
Colour Through Other artists Eyes
5th - 12th September 2009
Painting, Drawing, and Collage
12th - 19th September 2009
For more information, visit: www.artsinprovence.com
Prince's Drawing School:
Life Drawing at Kensington Palace, evening sessions
Wednesdays 6.30-9pm: 27th May, 3rd, 10th, 17th, 24th June
Drawing London's Changing Faces
May 28th, June 4th, 11th, 18th, 25th
For more information, visit: www.princesdrawingschool.org
Mali Prints
The grand Mosque, Djenne, 2009
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.
Ecclesiastical Commissions:
Mark is currently engaged on designs for St Mary's Stowting and the Church of the Epiphany, Doha.
The Bosham altar frontal tapestry is now installed in Holy Trinity Church for the duration of Ordinary Season. It was woven by Philip Sanderson of West Dean Tapestry Studios from my design during 2008. It represents a transition from left to right of: the adoration of divine creation in kelps and seaweeds - passing into a mystical image of faith as a permeable net in which we are willingly caught having at its centre divine light - this contemplation then propels us into the practical service of others, illustrating the story of the Men of Bosham feeding the people of Chichester fish during the plague.
Holy Trinity Bosham altar tapestry frontal, woven tapestry, 90 x 270cm, 2008