About Mark

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I left the reinsurance industry to take a job with a large church helping develop creative elements for services when I was sent a video of an artist in Ukraine doing something called sand painting. I was blown away! Such beauty created with such basic materials - I had to try it! We built a box. I worked for three days to create a simple

I left the reinsurance industry to take a job with a large church helping develop creative elements for services when I was sent a video of an artist in Ukraine doing something called sand painting. I was blown away! Such beauty created with such basic materials - I had to try it! We built a box. I worked for three days to create a simple Easter presentation. The audience was just as mesmerized as I was and my sand painting career was born. I've been doing it ever since.

This is such a potent form of art. Who knew light through sand could create such beautiful gradations? And combined with a powerful soundtrack, it can become more than beautiful pictures. 

We all fight becoming cynical. I love finding ways to keep innocent hope alive and share it. Sand and light along with mature artistry create something 

This is such a potent form of art. Who knew light through sand could create such beautiful gradations? And combined with a powerful soundtrack, it can become more than beautiful pictures. 

We all fight becoming cynical. I love finding ways to keep innocent hope alive and share it. Sand and light along with mature artistry create something that can sneak inside and touch your soul, and rekindle the belief that anything is possible.

My artistic skills were supported by parents who dabbled in art themselves. They provided plenty of materials: an antique desk full of mysterious mechanical pencils, slide rules, reams of old paper; professional graphic design markers; an easel and oil paints... They empowered me with a curiosity and freedom to explore. Being an illustrat

My artistic skills were supported by parents who dabbled in art themselves. They provided plenty of materials: an antique desk full of mysterious mechanical pencils, slide rules, reams of old paper; professional graphic design markers; an easel and oil paints... They empowered me with a curiosity and freedom to explore. Being an illustrator, actor, cartoonist, writer, painter, and creative consultant is part of why I'm sought after as a sand painter. In everything I do I try to see things differently. I stretch myself and those around me to find an answer that's fresh and simple at the same time - the best kind of solution.