Mark A. Brennan

Mark A. Brennan

Mark Brennan (born 1968) is a Canadian landscape artist known for his work depicting Canadian National parks and wilderness areas using painting, sound and fine art photography.[1]

Biography

Brennan was born in Swindon, England in 1968.[2] He grew up on the West Coast of Scotland, where he spent much of his time exploring the Scottish Highlands.[1] In 1984, after leaving high school at age 16 he joined the British Royal Navy, just as the Cold War was ending. This was where his introduction to artistic expression came into being, manifesting in the form of documenting overseas deployments in the North Atlantic and Arctic as a ships photographer. During an Arctic patrol, Mark began to explore painting at age 18 which continued later when he worked in London, borrowing art books from the library during quiet night watches to teach himself painting. In 1985, aged 17, while on deployment in Middle East during the Gulf War, he witnessed the edge of the Ethiopian Famine, when the ship he was serving on, HMS Charybdis visited Djibouti. In July 1988 he photographed the Piper Alpha oil rig explosion in the North Sea where 167 men died whilst serving as ships photographer on HMS Phoebe.

At the age of 19 he emigrated to Pictou County in Nova Scotia, Canada,[3] and painted his first landscape in the early 1990's at Perch Lake near Trafalgar, Nova Scotia.[3]

Brennan’s main focus has been to record Canada's wilderness areas and National Parks through landscape painting.[3] In 2010 he began working with sound, recording the bio-phony of intact wilderness areas as a way to both connect to nature and use during his solo art shows. In 2016 Brennan returned to traditional film photography to work on a series of landscape photographs depicting the wild coastline of Nova Scotia, Canada.

In 2006 he ran for the federal Green Party as a parachute candidate in the riding of Random, Burin, St George's, Newfoundland.

He has had 13 solo art shows.

His work can be found in the Nova Scotia Government Public Art Bank Collection as well as private and corporate collections.[3][4]

In October 2009 he was included in the book From Land & Sea, Nova Scotia's Contemporary Landscape Artists, published by Nimbus Publishing.

References

  1. 1 2 "Local painter taking his art to the silver screen". News, The (Nova Scotia). July 1, 2008. Retrieved 2008-08-02.
  2. ↑ "Biography". Mark Brennan. Archived from the original on 2008-05-01. Retrieved 2008-08-02.
  3. 1 2 3 4 McIntyre, Cait (January 18, 2008). "Isolating creativity". News, The (Nova Scotia). Retrieved 2008-08-02.
  4. ↑ "Nova Scotia Artwork Purchased for Art Bank Collection". Tourism, Culture and Heritage (Nova Scotia). April 16, 2008. Retrieved 2008-08-02.
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