Mark Grotjahn

Renowned for his exploration of perspective, Mark Grotjahn is an artist whose work spans across the mediums of colour drawings and paintings as well as sculpture. Grotjahn’s most notable work is his Butterfly series – developing on his geometric paintings, the Butterfly series are comprised of thick oil and painted in such a way that the subject appears to stretch, recede and shrink on the canvas. After a skiing accident, Grotjahn was unable to paint with the same intensity that he usually would and could not work for more than two hours at a time; his Face Paintings series sprung from this accident - works depicting a simple geometrical structure of mouth, nose and eyes – Grotjahn worked on sheets of cardboard for this series and would meticulously apply layers upon layers of oil resulting in an almost sculptural finish to his work.