C. Mark Elms has been drawing all his life, including two years in the animation program at Sheridan College “studying with masters from Disney, J. Arthur Rank and Warner Bros. , learning to draw and paint in 4 dimensions,” he says.
For over 50 years, Elms was on a “learning while earning journey through point-of-sale, display and exhibition design, poster art, direct mail, newspaper and magazine illustration, signwriting, lithography, xerography, web-design, computer programming and more.”
Today, he’s working in the traditional medium of watercolour, and was recently included (Botero Beach, below) in the Figurative Show group exhibition at Westland Gallery, which represents him.
Botero Beach was recognized with the Charles Comfort medal at the internationally juried 2024 Open Water Exhibition of the Canadian Society of Painters in Water Colour (more here). The medal goes to a figurative work of exceptional quality.
C. Mark Elms at Westland Gallery in London, Ontario, here.
His Instagram, here.
*NOTE: Wondering what is a transparent watercolour? See this explainer at the Transparent Watercolour Society of America, here.
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