AN experienced artist from Stroud is competing in a Sky Arts competition and will have his work featured on the popular TV show.
Mark Stopforth is a contender in the second season of Sky Arts Landscape Artist of the Year.
Mark, who focuses on landscape, horizons and water, will be up against 47 other artists from across the UK in a series of heats.
A master with charcoal, pencil and oil, he creates wild landscapes, with inspiration coming from the untamed and moors, fens and fells of wild Britain.
The first programme of the new series will air at 8pm on Tuesday, October 11.
It is presented by personality and comedian Frank Skinner, alongside presenter and journalist Joan Bakewell - a leading figure in the arts for nearly six decades.
The judges are artist Tai Shan Schierenberg and independent curators Kate Bryan and Kathleen Soriano.
“Landscapes” first aired last year following the enormous success of Sky’s Portrait Artist of the Year.
The winning artist will receive a £10,000 commission to interpret Petworth House in West Sussex for the National Trust’s national art collection and £500 to spend on CassArt materials.
Mark has worked as an artist for more than 20 years and has exhibited work across the country, most recently in Bristol, Cornwall and London.
He is also a successful published poet, having being shortlisted for the Brit Writers’ Award 2012 and won Fleeting Magazines International Best Short Writing 2010.
For more information visit: markstopforth.co.uk/
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