Mark Cazalet

Marks work has always been centred in colour; colour as a spatial, emotional and formal understanding. Whatever the representational or abstract motif might be the subject matter has always been a profound joy in mixing and organising colour relationships. Mark says; "I am, it seems, unable to simply begin making without inspiration from a place or event, normally explored through drawing." Paul Klee famously said One eye sees, the other feels; this neatly summarises the balance he seeks between empiricism and lyricism. Analysing and composing are inseparable from looking, the interrogation of reality that frees the hand to improvise. The second strand of my making is underpinned by sacramental theology. As David Jones put it we are sign makers, from the laying of a table to elaborate ceremonies, we imbue the simplest routines with meaning, made for others to see. I make art to communicate visible signs for inward invisible transformations. Increasingly these signs are best described as musical settings dealing with rhythms, harmonies, discords, counterpoint and melody.

Mark Cazalet is a contemporary artist based in London and Suffolk, UK. He trained at Chelsea School of Art and then Falmouth School of Art for Degree level. Immediately after graduating he was awarded the French government’s National studentship award to study in France. He studied at L’École-des-Beaux-Arts Paris, in the studio of Christian Boltanski. Simultaneously to this scholarship he was awarded a year at the Cite-des-Arts studio complex in the Marais. After a year back in London he went to M.S. University Baroda for an eighteen-month Association of Commonwealth Universities Scholarship to study under Professor Gulham Mohammed Sheikh. Since his return to the UK he has held a number of residencies and in 2102 and 2013 was artist in residence twice at The Anni and Josef Albers Foundation in Connecticut, America. Mark is a Senior Member of Faculty at The Royal drawing School and teaches at West Dean College, The Edward James Foundation, Sussex.