Mark Gaskin

"Mark Gaskin belongs to the powerful revival of representation in the visual arts which has been gradually eroding the preeminence of abstraction from years past... The work of Mark Gaskin is welcome proof that painting is and remains a major form of art in the waning days of the twentieth century" - Leo Rossgandler, A.I.C.A., I.C.O.M.

"Gaskin is an accomplished painter and draftsman... young, charged with creative energy and intellect, and (his) work promises to draw us in strange new directions." - Robin Laurence, Arts Writer

"I recreate the surface of each new canvas to imitate the surface of a cracked plaster wall - the only working surface available to me when I orgianally began to draw and paint. Each new painting is a reconstruction - I use varying combinations of plaster, charcoal drawing, layers of acrylic colours, and translucent resin. Through the process the paintings realize their power, their meaning." - Mark Gaskin

Horse Goes To The Shade - 2000
acrylic and encaustic on board, 44 in x 56 in