Mark Bockrath is a representational landscape and figure painter living and working in West Chester, PA. He graduated from the University of Delaware in 1981 with an M.S. degree in Art Conservation. Mark works as a paintings conservator in private practice in West Chester. He has taught classes on painting materials and figure painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia. His work is in numerous corporate, private and public collections including the State Department, Oberlin College and The McGraw-Hill Companies. He is represented by the Gross McCleaf Gallery in Philadelphia.
In addition to landscapes of his native Pennsylvania, Mark has painted landscapes of Maine for nearly thirty years. He mostly works in oil or pastel, but also charcoal and silverpoint for portraits and figures. He is interested in work that has a unified visual and emotional impact, and in the surface of the painting apart from its subject or composition. The emotion determines the technique; the painting then takes on a life of its own in the process.
