Mark Cazalet

Biography

Mark Cazalet attended Chelsea and Falmouth College of Art before being awarded two postgraduate scholarships with the French Government at L'École des Beaux-Arts in Paris (Christian Boltanski's Atelier), and subsequently at MS University, Baroda, West India, with the Association of Commonwealth Universities (under Prof Gulam Mohammed Sheikh). Cazalet's studio practice is based around drawing, painting and printmaking, usually concerned with landscape themes; informed by particular qualities of light, colour and presence, often executed at dawn, dusk and nighttime. In the spring of 2012 and 2013, he was artist in residence at The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation in Connecticut. Cazalet has completed large-scale glass and painted works for many ecclesiastical settings, including Worcester, Manchester, and Chelmsford Cathedrals. He works with fabricators in materials as varied as mosaic, mural, stained glass, etched/engraved glass, textiles, and lino/woodcut limited edition books. He also, infrequently, undertakes a small number of portraits.