Mark Hearld's Menagerie | Studio Insight

A sneak peak into Mark Hearld's collage process. Enjoy!

This is to coincide with our exhibition Mark Hearld's Menagerie, held at The Scottish Gallery in December 2020.

Film thumbnail photo by Hermione McCosh.

You can view the exhibition online here:
https://scottish-gallery.co.uk/exhibi...

The Gallery is delighted to present Mark Hearld’s Menagerie this December. Mark lives and works in York, but as a graduate of Glasgow School of Art, he is very much at home in The Scottish Gallery, holding his first solo exhibition with us in 2009. Taking inspiration from the natural world, Mark has a particular interest in British flo­ra and fauna, with recurring motifs of the fox and chicken, hedgerow, and songbirds. His paintings, collage, linocuts and designs are drawn from a lifetime of looking at pattern books, popular prints, primitive art, and the poetry of Blake. In this new body of work, created during lockdown, the animal kingdom parades across his artworks transporting us to a story­book countryside where we find the sly fox, strutting cockerel, the moorhen at the water’s edge, the geese on the green at Carnyorth, and fields of Jersey cows in rich Cornish pastures. Accompanying the exhibition will be a publication that contains a special menagerie treasure hunt. There is an original Mark Hearld work to be won, with several runner up prizes for those who work out the letter puzzle!