Mark Dober is a landscape painter based in central Victoria who works on site and responds to the world around him with directness and immediacy.
Mark frequently attends artist residencies where he creates wall-sized works on paper in the landscape around him. These large scale works are often shown at the galleries supporting the project. In the last few years Mark has exhibited at Geelong, Mildura, Wagga Wagga, Castlemaine, Bathurst, Swan Hill, Tuggeranong, Wodonga, Benalla and elsewhere. His work is also shown in commercial galleries and has been included in many contemporary art prizes.
The artist’s work is a celebration of experience and nature’s beauty. The heightened colour of his work, and his obvious delight in gestural mark making, working with negative and positive shapes, and a delight in patterning, reveal the influence of Modernist pioneers such as Cezanne and Van Gogh, as well as contemporary English artist David Hockney.
Mark has a PhD in Painting from Monash University and is a member of the Australian Watercolour Institute.