Visual Authenticity by Mark N Tompkins


Mark N Tompkins, although primarily a painter, turned out to be an equally interesting and authentic scenic artist. His works, in a foolish and sometimes sarcastic and bizarre way, portray our everyday life. He started painting revolted by the overall circumstances in the vague value system that did not offer him any thriving perspective. Realizing the absurdity of the choice and the fact that he was left to himself, Mark N Tompkins came up with the idea and the decision that he could seriously deal with such an "ineffectual" and profession. But, he has been drawing for as long as he can remember.



After finishing his studies, Mark N Tompkins tried to find his artistic voice and show off his authenticity. Somewhere around the age of 28, he had produced his first artworks. However, dissatisfied with the result, he had destroyed many of the works from that period. The process of visual authenticity is not an easy one. Mark N Tompkins was looking for all that, in fact, he is still looking for it today, always experimenting, perfecting, fine-tuning with his temperament.

Around that age, he applied to an art contest that accepted works in two categories: paintings and digital drawings. In these works, using irony, absurdity, grotesque and humor, Mark N Tompkins dealt with some of the contemporary phenomena, dealing with problems such as consumerism, conformism, religious indoctrination, pollution, species extermination, social inertness, etc. Since then, the artist has remained true to his visual authenticity, creating expressive, provocative, somewhat crazy, authentic, ideologically direct and clear art.

When asked about the main difference between being a matte painter and scenic artist, Mark N Tompkins states freedom of expression as the key distinction. Nowadays, he mostly deals with establishing a flow for his art and narrative that would enable some more ambitious images of monumental formats in a fairly different fashion than he has been holding up till now. Since his art studio is filled with artworks that are waiting to be presented to the public, Mark N Tompkins is planning a solo exhibition sometime this fall.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Relationship between Painting and Cinema

Image
Cinema and painting have always been in a close relationship, but some artists felt such passion for painting that they had to incorporate some of their favorite 'framed' moments into films with such precision that a person couldn’t help but wonder if there is a difference at all. Mark N Tompkins is a Canadian film and theater painter, or also known as a scenic artist, who equally loves painting and cinema, and has a perfect eye for details. Throughout his career, he has worked on many design sets and on a number of movies sets as an on-set painter. He’s born in Vancouver, British Columbia and studied at Capilano University in Vancouver in the animation program. This served him as a great opportunity to learn more about art and cinema.
Read more

How to Become a Good Actor

Image
If you want to be a good actor, you must be willing to invest in your training. Besides the academic training, you also might learn other disciplines, read a lot and seek information on various subjects. You might wonder if a good actor is born or it can be made. The skilled actor who played a role in the movie 13 Ghosts , Mark N Tompkins, gives an answer to this question. “Starting from the idea that the person is born with a natural capacity for acting, it is important to remember that in order to be successful in any field, 10% is talent and 90% is work. And that's it, if you don’t work to develop your talent, you will not increase your potential. Something you don’t use it, you will lose it” - says Mark. In fact, a fundamental characteristic of an actor must be the strong willpower. This is because acting is a difficult profession, since it is not a stable occupation, in most cases. The history of cinema and television is full of examples of great actors who were di...
Read more