Mark Francis

CONCEPT OF ARTWORK

The idea behind this work is to highlight the vulnerability of our planet and to the life that exists on it. Humankind is striving to reach for the stars and beyond, while at the same time forgetting the preciousness of what we have on planet earth. We are a jewel in an endless ocean of space and as far as we know… we are alone! We could be at the start of another mass extinction on earth, as the time that we have been here is less than a blink of an eye. The Tiger is such a majestic and endangered species and an amazing emblem for all life on earth.

ABOUT MARK FRANCIS (UK)

Over the past thirty years, Mark Francis has made paintings of singular optical intensity — powerful, apparently abstract combinations of concentrated patterning and stark colour contrasts that are in fact principally based on what the unaided human eye lacks the power to see. His work draws significantly on discoveries about the form and substance of reality that result from technologically enhanced vision. More recently, too, Francis’ art has looked outwards, taking as points of pictorial reference the graphic interpretations of data received by radio telescopes as part of astronomers’ efforts to chart distant zones of the cosmos.