Welcome!

Welcome to Mark Gardner Art, where I share news and images of my oil and pastel paintings.  If this is your first visit to my website, I’d like to share a little about myself and my art.  

About Mark Gardner  

I’ve spent most of my life in the woods as a logger and Plein air painter.  After an accident at age sixteen, I started drawing and have been creating for over fifty years.  Formal schooling includes the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, classes at Carnegie Mellon University, and the Art Students League in New York City.  Born in the Pacific Northwest, I have lived most of my life in Pennsylvania.  

I’ve spent most of my life in the woods as a logger and Plein air painter.  After an accident at age sixteen, I started drawing and have been creating for over fifty years.  Formal schooling includes the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, classes at Carnegie Mellon University, and the Art Students League in New York City.  Born in the Pacific Northwest, I have lived most of my life in Pennsylvania.  

Inspired by Natural Surroundings  

Most comfortable in the outdoors, I work primarily en Plein air, as my love of creation and nature drives me.   The bulk of my work is nature landscapes, but I deviate from this from time to time.  Both the scenic beauty of places traveled and my current surroundings in Western Pennsylvania influence my work.  

 Thank you! 

To see a full range of my work, please visit my online gallery.  To stay up to date with my latest work, please subscribe to my newsletter here.  If you’d like to get in touch, you can do that here.   Thank you for visiting and I hope you will stop back again as I post new work and information frequently.