Featured Artist of the Month

Mark Paul Elliott is an artist originally from North Manchester. He has also lived and worked in former mill towns such as Rochdale, Bolton and Oldham.

Mark is a self-taught artist who believes this will allow him in time to experiment more with the work he produces. He feels by leaning new techniques and styles himself he is best able to master whatever it is he is trying to achieve. Mark explains “I have learnt so much already and much of what I do best, I have found by trying something new, sometimes by mistake!”

It is his experimentation of oil paint that helps Mark produce varying textured techniques in his paintings. Some of his paintings are smooth with little texture,  some of his paintings have a very heavy impasto texture whilst some are made up from the crusty remnants left behind on his palette!