MARCUS HODGE

Marcus is a highly successful portrait painter and landscape artist. His painterly style owes much to a rigorous five years of training in the old master techniques at the Escuela Libre Del Mediterraneo in Palma, under the tuition of the late Joaquin Torrents Llado. On completing his training he became only the third person in the school's history to be invited to remain as a tutor. After returning to Britain in 1996 he was featured within a year as one of the 'A' list of portrait painters by Harpers and Queen and has remained in constant demand ever since.

Recent commissions include a large pair of paintings for the Kings Troop RHA to commemorate their 60th Anniversary Parade and a stalking scene at Balmoral for the Scots Guards. In 2010 Marcus embarked on his most ambitious picture to date. He was commissioned by the 3rd Rifles to paint 'And in today walks tomorrow', a scene of Sangin market in Afghanistan, to mark the end of their six month tour. After completing military training Marcus spent ten days going out on foot patrol with the company into the bazaar. The portrait, which contains over twenty figures and is a fantastic 135 x 255 cm, is hanging in the 3rd Rifles' Mess at Redford Barracks in Edinburgh.

Marcus has held four solo exhibitions since 2001 with the Fine Art Commissions in Bury Street, London, most of which were virtual sell-outs. His most recent solo exhibition in November last year contrasted the sculptural west coast and highlands of Scotland with the heat and dust of Rajasthan. Marcus regularly travels to far flung corners of the world in search of inspiration but finds himself drawn time and again to the Scottish Highlands. 

William Packer, art critic for the Financial Times, wrote of Marcus last year;

"Marcus Hodge, at 45, is now secure in his reputation as one of the most successful portrait painters of his generation. But just as there is more to being an artist than a full book of portrait commissions, so there is rather more to Marcus as the artist he is.

Off into the wilderness Marcus goes, loaded with small boards and panels on which to register, and with a most remarkable freedom and spontaneity, whatever takes his eye. Yet far more than mere studies for larger works, these paintings are themselves properly resolved within their own terms, and are as impressive as anything he does."

 


MARCUS HODGE

PONY IN THE HEATHER

Oil on Canvas

60 x 91cm

MARCUS HODGE

BEN NEVIS AND GORSE

Oil on Board

29 x 37.5in

MARCUS HODGE

STALKING PONY AND STAG

Oil on Canvas

50 x 80cm (23.5 x 31.5in)

MARCUS HODGE

BAY STALKING PONY AND STAG

Oil on Canvas

20 x 34in

MARCUS HODGE

WATCHFUL DOE

Oil on Board

13 x 16in

MARCUS HODGE

RED SUN AT ARISAIG

Oil on Board

13.5 x 23in

MARCUS HODGE

VIEW TOWARDS SKYE FROM ARISAIG

Oil on Board

49 x 60cm

MARCUS HODGE

CATCHING THE LIGHT

Oil on Board

38 x 45cm

MARCUS HODGE

STILL MORNING AT GLEN NEVIS

Oil on Board

24 x 19cm

MARCUS HODGE

SUNSET ON A PALETTE

Oil on Board

28 x 34cm

MARCUS HODGE

YELLOW BUOY, WEST COAST

Oil on Board

27 x 35cm

MARCUS HODGE

SUNSET OVER LOCH LINNHE

Oil on Board

55 x 21cm

MARCUS HODGE

RAJASTHAN GREY

Oil on Board

46 x 61cm

MARCUS HODGE

MARWARI

Oil on Board

46 x 61cm

MARCUS HODGE

RAJASTHAN BAY

Oil on Board