Mark Horton began taking studio art classes while practicing law, and in 1982 he quit a successful legal practice to paint full time. His urban scenes collect a variety of textures, a hodgepodge of signs, and unplanned juxtaposition of colors to suggest real connections between people and place.
"At first, my pictures are simple and abstract. The “reality” develops like everything else in the picture. As a result, painting for me is sort of a dance around the canvas while working on the whole. Sometimes I ponder the needed changes, more often I respond intuitively until the work looks like an actual place." -Mark Horton
Selected Collections:
Quarles & Brady LLP, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Faegre and Benson, Law Firm, Minneapolis, Minnesota; First Bank, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Morris-Day Architects, Washington D.C.; Edward Kemper Design, New York City, New York; CSM, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Norwest Bank, Minneapolis, Minnesota; International Language School, Madison, Wisconsin; Northland Insurance Company, Minneapolis, Minnesota; North Memorial Hospital, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Luther Hospital, Eau Claire, Wisconsin; Dunn County Electric Co-Op, Durand, Wisconsin
AERIAL VIEW OF LARGE CITY WITH TRAFFIC, Oil on Linen, 42 x50"
CITY IN BLUE AT DUSK, OIl on Linen, 42 x 54"
CITY IN RED, YELLOW AND OCHRE, Oil on Linen, 36 x 50"
AERIAL VIEW OF CITY WITH BLUE SKY, WHITE BUILDINGS, Oil on Masonite, 12 x 24"
CITY IN WHITE, GREEN AND GREY, Oil on Linen, 36 x 50"
CITY WITH THEATER AND GREEN SKY, Oil on Board, 12x12", and CITY WITH THEATER AND RED BUILDING, Oil on Board, 14 x 11" (R-On loan to US Embassy in Lithuania)
William Nichols
