Born and raised
in Maryland, Mark began playing guitar and singing professionally at
the age of 14 and continued doing so into his thirties. His passion for
visual arts did not take root until early mid-life, when he discovered
his interest in visual arts. After struggling for years with alcohol
dependence, Mark discovered that his passion for art helped the healing
process in recovery, and led to a spiritual connection to every painting
he creates. While Mark’s music can still be heard on his website or in
infrequent live performances, his band and Vintage Guitar business
became avocations, while art became his vocation and passion.
Mark, a
graduate of the University of Maryland, studied figurative and portrait
painting at Nelson Shanks’ Studio Incamminati in Pennsylvania, The Art
League School in Alexandria, VA., and he attended several master artist
workshops throughout the country, honing his skills depicting human form
and painting live models regularly. Mark loves the old masters, such
as Bouguereau, Schengel, Tissot, Harlamoff, DuBlaas, Andriotti, and
Enjolras, among many others, and he strives to merge their techniques
with his own style and vision.
Mark strives to
create beautiful color harmony with a tasteful but vibrant-color
palette, and to fuse same into carefully conceived compositions, using
bold strokes, and impasto, yet creating a delicate rendering of the
human face and form to capture the essence of his subjects on canvas.
Mark travels
throughout Europe and America have provided inspiration for his images.
He works with local models, including one who has been used in many of
the famous Pino’s portraits.
Mark has won
numerous awards including: 2006 Portrait Society of America Children's
Portrait Competition; 2007 Women’s Club of Chevy Chase, MD Annual Art
Show; 2005 Rockville Art League Art Show Winner and his
art has been featured in magazines including: Gulf Connoisseur (Jan.2010),Capitol File Magazine
2008; Washington Spaces Magazine 2007 and 2006; Who's Who of Strathmore
Worldwide 2007-2008; Preview Magazine Art Expo, NY 2007; Strathmore
Applause Magazine cover 2006; Art Business News Magazine 2006 and 2005.
Mark’s listings and memberships include the American Artist -
www.askart.com, Montgomery Gazette 2005; Oil Painters of America OPA;
Portrait Artist Society of America; and the International Guild of
Realism, Scottsdale, AZ.
In 2008, Mark
was voted into the prestigious Art Renewal Center's Living Masters group
as a "Living Artist". Now at ARC (www.Artrenewal.org), which features
some of the world’s best known, living oil painters.
Mark’s paintings
are available primarily from MarkLovettStudio, in private collections
throughout the world, and from time to time, Mark makes some paintings
available to galleries throughout the U.S. If not already sold, those
galleries include:
Rehs Gallery 57th Ave New York, NY