MARK ELIOT LOVETT - BIO
Born and raised in Maryland,
Mark Eliot Lovett began playing guitar and singing professionally
at the age of 14 and continued doing so into his thirties. His
passion for visual arts did not take root until early mid-life,
when he discovered his interest in visual arts. After struggling
for years with alcohol dependence, Mark discovered that his
passion for art helped the healing process in recovery, and
led to a spiritual connection to every painting he creates.
While Mark’s music can still be heard on his website or
in infrequent live performances, his band and Vintage Guitar
business became avocations, while art became his vocation and
passion.
Lovett,
a graduate of the University of Maryland, studied figurative
and portrait painting at Nelson Shanks’ Studio Incamminati
in Pennsylvania, The Art League School in Alexandria, VA., and
he attended several master artist workshops throughout the country,
honing his skills depicting human form and painting live models
regularly. Mark loves the old masters, such as Bouguereau, Schengel,
Tissot, Harlamoff, DuBlaas, Andriotti, and Enjolras, among many
others, and he strives to merge their techniques with his own
style and vision.
Mark Lovett strives to create
beautiful color harmony with a tasteful but vibrant-color palette,
and to fuse same into carefully conceived compositions, using
bold strokes, and impasto, yet creating a delicate rendering
of the human face and form to capture the essence of his subjects
on canvas.
Mark Eliot Lovett travels throughout
Europe and America have provided inspiration for his images.
He works with local models, including one who has been used
in many of the famous Pino’s portraits.
Lovett
has won numerous awards including: 2006 Portrait Society of
America Children's Portrait Competition; 2007 Women’s
Club of Chevy Chase, MD Annual Art Show; 2005 Rockville Art
League Art Show Winner
Lovett's art has been featured
in magazines including: Capitol File Magazine 2008; Washington
Spaces Magazine 2007 and 2006; Who's Who of Strathmore Worldwide
2007-2008; Preview Magazine Art Expo, NY 2007; Strathmore Applause
Magazine cover 2006; Art Business News Magazine 2006 and 2005.
Mark’s listings and memberships include the American Artist
- www.askart.com, Montgomery Gazette 2005; Oil Painters of America
OPA; Portrait Artist Society of America; and the International
Guild of Realism, Scottsdale, AZ.
In 2008, Mark was voted into
the prestigious Art Renewal Center's Living Masters group as
a "Living Artist". Now at ARC (www.Artrenewal.org),
which features some of the world’s best known, living
oil painters.
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Partial Client List:
Congressman Bill Livingston -
portrait commission
Gregg Allman - Allman Brothers
Band
Forrest Whitaker - Academy Award
Winning Actor
Joe Matza - president eFilm Hollywood,
CA
Bill Collins - Cassidy &
Pinkard Washington, DC
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