Mark Petty 'Magic' HPM Available

Artist: Mark Petty
Title: Magic
Medium: Framed Multi Layer Reverse Screen Print on Glass
Size: 80 x 80 cm
Edition: 10
Price: £995

Mark Petty is a British painter and printmaker who turns quiet corners of England into luminous memories. Born in Yorkshire and trained at Leeds College of Art, he now works from a studio overlooking the River Ouse, where shifting light and tidal mud provide daily lessons in colour and reflection. Using oil on linen and hand pulled screen prints, Petty builds each image through translucent glazes, allowing earlier marks to glow beneath later layers so that barn walls, canal bridges and empty fields seem lit from within.

His palette leans toward muted ochres, soft greys and the occasional burst of cobalt, colours that echo faded postcards and cinema posters discovered in local junk shops. Figures appear rarely, and when they do they are turned away or blurred by distance, inviting viewers to inhabit the scene rather than observe a story. The result is a body of work that feels both intimate and universal, where a single streetlamp can suggest the promise of company or the certainty of solitude.

Petty exhibits widely across the United Kingdom and Europe, and his affordable prints have made his imagery familiar to a generation of collectors seeking calm in an accelerated world. When he is not painting, he walks the towpaths with a small camera, gathering source material that he later translates into large canvases. In this way his art becomes a gentle reminder that beauty often hides in plain sight, waiting for anyone willing to slow down, look and notice the ordinary glow of an average day.