The Artist magazine.
Got a nice little feature in The summer edition of the Artist magazine this month.
The society for all artists.
Pleased to have a little tutorial in the July issue of The SAA Paint magazine.
Art demonstration.
Another fun evening demonstrating portrait painting with palette knives for Hughendon art group.
Oil painting course.
Had a great weekend teaching a nice talented bunch of students on my loosen up and paint more freely oil painting course at Henley School of Art.
My Chemo self portrait series in the news.
Found myself on another online news site i’ve never heard of!
https://www.real-fix.com/general/artist-diagnosed-with-cancer-produces-incredible-series-of-self-portraits-for-every-week-of-his-chemo/
Oxford art society.
Got a nice little mention in The Oxford Times with Oxford Art Society.
https://www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/leisure/art/17597601.oxford-art-society-show-and-sell-work-at-oxfordshire-museum-in-woodstock/ https://oxfordartsociety.co.uk/
Daily mail photo shoot.
We had a visit from a Daily Mail photographer, they were going to feature my chemo selfie story but it didn’t happen as there was much more important news going on out there!
Anyway we got a nice set of pictures and thankfully my hair has grown back.
Art Demonstration.
Had fun painting at great speed while demonstrating plein air painting techniques in oils a few weeks ago for Shefford art society.
My chemo self portraits.
I found this little feature on my chemo selfies on a news website i’ve never heard of, The London Economic.
Teaching art in the Algarve.
Nice to get away from the grey skies, teaching portrait painting to a great bunch of artists in the Algarve. “I thought Mark was great. He was informative and gentle in his approach and has instilled in me a sense of ‘breaking down’ in steps the task of portrait painting.
In addition it was nice to meet new people.” SALLY
https://algarve-art.com/algarve-society-of-artists/
Portrait painting workshop.
Another fun day teaching a lovely group of artists portrait painting with palette knives at Art events in Surrey.
“Thank you for a wonderful wokshop on Saturday. It was a delight to meet you and we all loved working with you on the challenge of the palette knife! Not only are you a fine artist but an excellent tutor and I very much appreciated the preparation you made to ensure the students had all they needed to help them create a good painting. It was huge fun as well! We are already looking forward to the next one and I will send you some dates soon.”
Linda Bywaters
Art demonstration.
This is a first for me, a pet portrait demonstration in acrylics.
I did this one for Winslow and district art society in less than 2 hours.
www.winslowart.org.uk
Artist feature in Algarve magazine.
Got a nice little article in this Algarve ex pats magazine. It’s about me and my portrait painting workshop in the Algarve next month.
https://algarve-art.com/algarve-society-of-artists/
Daily Mirror chemo selfie feature.
My chemo self portraits got a little mention in The Daily Mirror on monday.
My Chemo self portraits.
More chemo selfie news, this time in my local rag The Bucks Herald.
https://www.bucksherald.co.uk/news/mark-fennell-from-brill-has-painted-a-portrait-a-day-to-come-to-terms-with-chemotherapy-treatment-1-8850202
Painting workshop.
I ran a workshop on plein air landscape painting techniques, indoors unfortunately but all good fun with a nice bunch of artists from Beechwood art society, thanks to Clive Wickenden!
https://www.beechwoodartists.org.uk
My chemo self portraits in the news.
I’ve had a fair bit of interest in my chemo self portraits, today I was interviewed on bbc 3 counties radio and also got a feature on bbc news. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p070qny2
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-47572113
#lymphomaawareness #lymphomasurvivor #selfportraits #portraitartist #portraitpainter
My chemo selfies in the news.
I’ve had a little write up in The Metro about my series of self portraits, one a week over 18 weeks of chemotherapy.
https://metro.co.uk/2019/03/09/i-painted-a-self-portrait-every-week-to-get-myself-through-four-months-of-chemotherapy-8810970/
Painting course.
Had fun teaching palette knife portrait painting to a great group of artists at Pegasus Art in Stroud.
“I bought Mark’s workshop that was held on Saturday, as a Christmas present for my husband and he learnt so much! He can’t wait to come back on another workshop run by Mark!” Sally Cain.
https://www.pegasusart.co.uk/classes-workshops.irs
Judging school art competition.
It was an honour to be asked by Head of Art Phil Cave, to judge the Ashfold School Annual Art Competition.
https://www.ashfoldschool.co.uk/