Statement
Marc Heaton was born in South Wales in 1973. He graduated with a B.A in fine art from Central St. Martin’s College of Art and Design in London 1996 and has been producing artwork for over two decades. As a very young boy, he realised early that his talents and interests lay in his observational skills, not only of his natural surroundings, nature and land, but of people, drawn into his life and how they affected it. “Time stops for no one but through the work I can hold onto it for a bit longer” “everything in life is impermanent” through his artwork he has tried to show his response to this passage of time within an ever shifting/changing society. His studio in Devon England is a colourful humorous mix of found objects, and materials paintings drawings and sculptures, it’s like walking into his own wonderland, his artwork has bent and shaped itself to respond to each unique and personal perspective he has of this ‘colourful disorder of the present time in which we live.
The work is based on spontaneity and experiments with out any preconceived plan. The paintings are built up of hoarded disconnected fragments of knowledge like threads of memory stitched together until a knot of shapes and lines reveal a clear image that only exists in me. Like a great collection each piece is woven together into a personnel puzzle.
Over the years influences such as Ronald Searle, Punch illustrator's, The Cobra movement Picasso,Pollock and great comedians and writers Spike milligan Edward Lear and peter Sellers have all shaped my art.
In the silence of the studio with no distractions, only then can all the scribbles, marks,lines and shapes reveal themselves like sentences twisted together like an autobiography.” It’s my world , I’m on my own”.
Online Press/Press Release
Visual ArtBeat Magazine Cover Competition Finalist Austria 2012
Plateformag.com #issue 37 Heads&Tales Series Paris France 2011
Visual Art Beat Magazine New collection Salzburg Austria 2011
BBC Your Painting in association with public catalogue foundation2011
FranceinLondon
AllinLondon
redsquirrelgallery.com
Ask/Art The Artist Bluebook Worldwide Edition
De Veres Art Auctions 2009 Dublin
Artreview.com Dec 8 2009 Artspace Galleries, by Valeria
Artslant.com 7th Dec 2009 Artspace Galleries.
All in London.co.uk 'The Colourful Disorder of the Present' Artspace Galleries.
Skidmores Island 'The Glorius Secret' Saturday 27 ,2010 by Ian Skidmore
Alumni Art University of the Arts LondonThe Mail July 23 1997 Right frame of mind, by Rachel Rushton
The Mail, Menai Bridge Anglesey, Crammming in the talent by Rachel Mort 1998
The Mail , Menai Bribge Anglesey,New art gallery for Menai Bridge 1998
Daily Post August 20 1998 Framed at last by Ian Skidmore
Daily Post Friday October 23 1998 The People The DIY art gallery, By Ian Skidmore
Cwmni Da Y SIOE GELF March 20 1998 S4C by Gwenllian Griffith
Merthyr Express October 6 2000 Dark side of the room ,by Iwan Davies
Herald Express August 13 2004 Affair of the art
The Big Issue August 22 2004 Best Art , by Sarah Jane Downing
Herald Express Art that hits talent Marc 2006 by Glenn Price
Western Mail June 7 2007 Striking entries Welsh Artist of the Year ,by Matt Thomas
Ask/Art The Artist Bluebook Worldwide Edition
De Veres Art Auctions 2009 Dublin
Artreview.com Dec 8 2009 Artspace Galleries, by Valeria
Artslant.com 7th Dec 2009 Artspace Galleries.
All in London.co.uk 'The Colourful Disorder of the Present' Artspace Galleries.
Skidmores Island 'The Glorius Secret' Saturday 27 ,2010 by Ian Skidmore
Alumni Art University of the Arts London
Biography
| 1973 | Born in Pontypridd South Wales |
| 1990 | BTEC First Diploma Art&Design Pontypridd |
| 1991 | Glamorgan Centre for Art & Design Technology BTEC National Art&Design |
| 1991 | BTEC Diploma Photography Swansea Llwyn y Bryn |
| 1992 | Studied typography at the London College of Printing |
| 1993 | B.A Hons Fine Art Painting Central St Martins School of Art And Design |
Born in South Wales in 1973, and a fluent welsh speaker I graduated from St Martins in 1996 in Fine Art Painting my lecturers were Eileen Cooper R.A and Maurice Cockrill R.A. Later that year opened my own Art Gallery in North Wales,where I continued to paint and exhibit my work.The gallery ran for three years, and in that time exhibited many artist work, I also made stretchers and frames,I made many for Peter Prendergast, and Met up a few times with Kyffyn Williams. Ian Skidmore and his wife Silia helped me a great deal with Newspaper articles and opening of my shows.In 1998 I was interviewed and my work was featured on the Art Show on S4C Wales. Since then I,ve moved to Devon and continued to Sculpt and paint.
Published Works.
Plateform Magazine issue#37 Heads&Tales Paris France 2012
The Visual Artbeat Magazine issue#7 NEW COLLECTIONS Salzburg Austria 2011
BBC My Painting in association with,The Public Catalogue Foundation London/Camden 2011
The Dictonary of Artist in Wales since 1945 by Isabell Hichman& Dr Peter W Jones Hardcover 2010
Pelham Puppets:A Collectors Guide Published by Crowood Collectors Series, Hardcover 2008, Author David Leech.
