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Mark Adlington

Mark Adlington

 

Mark Adlington has been inspired by animals from his earliest youth. He attended the City & Guilds London School of Art and has exhibited at Cork Street Gallery and The Society of Wildlife Artists. Mark currently exhibits with John Martin Gallery, London.

Mark's research has taken him from Spain to the Arabian Peninsula via the coastline of the British Isles. His remarkable skill at capturing the movement and feel of an animal in motion is achieved through spending long periods of time 'in situ', allowing Mark to sketch movements repetitively until a fluidity begins to emerge.

 

New Images

This year, Mark has introduced a new series of work to coincide with the launch of Bridgeman Studio and to celebrate the Chinese Year of the Horse. The unusual Przewalski Horse is described by Mark below;

Paloelithic (Przewalski), 2013 (sennelier ink, watercolour and gouache) Spirit (Przewalski), 2013 (sennelier ink, gouache and watercolour)
Paleolithic (Przewalski), 2013 (sennelier ink, watercolour and gouache) Spirit (Przewalski),2013 (sennelier ink, watercolour and gouache)

'Przewalski's horse, the world's only surviving wild horse , was discovered in a remote region of Mongolia in the 1880s. The story of its subsequent extinction in the wild , successful preservation through captive animals, and recent reintroduction, is dramatic and pertinent, but for me the resonances of this sturdy muscular equid reverberate well beyond this, in scope, geography, and time.

More than 25,000 years before the horse was domesticated, mankind was inspired to paint, sculpt, carve and engrave horses – the horse (along with the bison) appears more often than any other subject in palaeolithic art . These ancient images have long been thought to be purposefully distorted exaggerated and imagined.

In point of fact nothing could be further from the truth. After two years studying Przewalski horses in the wild, the clarity of observation and accuracy of draughtsmanship of our earliest ancestors is increasingly obvious to me. They would have observed wild horses with keen interest, noting all behavioural characteristics to increase their chances of a successful hunt, and would then have regularly flayed and butchered the carcasses for meat and hide. Nobody would have had a better visual grasp of animal anatomy than early man'.

 

Mark Adlington's Studio Assistants

As Mark travels the world for his work, he often finds himself setting up a makeshift studio wherever he can find space. Whether Mark is photographing animals on land, in water or half way up a mountain, all his images start life as a series of carefully considered sketches.

mark Adlington baby leopard2 Stretching Cub (Arabian Leopard), 2008 (w/c on paper) Mark Adlington baby leopard
Arabian Leopard Cub in Breeding Centre,nr. Sharjah, UAE Stretching Cub (Arabian Leopard) 2008, watercolour on paper Arabian Leopard Cub in Breeding Centre,nr. Sharjah, UAE

 

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Mark drawing the Ibex, Gran Paradiso, Val d'Aosta

Photography courtesy of and copyright Mark Adlington, 2014, All Rights Reserved.

Watch Mark's video of his experiences creating his images in Gran Paradiso

See all of Mark Adlington's images available for licensing here

 

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