{"id":19306,"date":"2020-12-13T11:20:55","date_gmt":"2020-12-13T11:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/?p=19306"},"modified":"2025-06-15T17:51:42","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T16:51:42","slug":"still-an-artist-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/still-an-artist-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Still An Artist #6"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Do you believe in magic?, Do you believe in luck?, Do you believe in ghosts? An ambivalent magic that embroiders every experience \u2013 just ask artist Mark Bletcher<\/a>, who\u2019s paintings fuse magic, mundanity, and unlikely muses. Bletcher\u2019s work is a self-professed compendium of \u2018Modern Magical Realism\u2019, with influences ranging from writer Haruki Murakami to British painter Howard Hodgkin. <\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>\n\n\n\n
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Good Morning Sunshine by Mark Bletcher, \u00a31400<\/em> <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
His work, just as it should be, is hard to pin-down. Take his three painted versions of \u2018Night Cat\u2019 (2020), where a Maneki-neko, or \u2018lucky cat\u2019 figurine waves in front of a porcelain bowl. Each work is only ever-so-slightly different, bringing a sinister edge that ties gleefully with the brassy and burgundy jewel tones. Like stained-glass windows in an abandoned church, the work haunts with its colour and story.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>\n\n\n\n
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Night Cat (1) by Mark Bletcher, \u00a3200<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
 Bletcher also works with lithograph printing, mixing contemporary scenes and classical symbolism. See \u2018Birthday Girl\u2019 (2019), a monochromatic print made up of dashing lines and questionable characters. Nightmarish and filmic in scope, his unique technique brings scenes to life with depth and gestural detail.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>\n\n\n\n
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Birthday Girl by <\/strong>Mark Bletcher<\/strong><\/a>, \u00a3220<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Caught in a Sudden Downpour (9) by Mark Bletcher, \u00a3200<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
 Since graduating Newcastle University in 2019, Bletcher has exhibited across the UK, and was awarded the Gwen May Recent Graduate Award by The Royal Society for Painter-Printmakers. He\u2019s also been shortlisted for the Woon Foundation prize, FBA Futures award, and The Biscuit Factory Contemporary Young Artist award. Most recently he co-founded the postal art network Minutes Exchange, and continues to finesse his practice from his Newcastle studio. <\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>\n\n\n\n
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Trophy by Mark Bletcher, \u00a31800<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
 We\u2019re thrilled to represent Bletcher\u2019s work, and invite you to browse a selection of his most spellbinding pieces:<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>\n\n\n\n
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View all available work by Mark Bletcher..<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Do you believe in magic?, Do you believe in luck?, Do you believe in ghosts? An ambivalent magic that embroiders every experience \u2013 just ask artist Mark Bletcher, who\u2019s paintings fuse magic, mundanity, and unlikely muses. Bletcher\u2019s work is a self-professed compendium of \u2018Modern Magical Realism\u2019, with influences ranging from writer Haruki Murakami to British painter Howard Hodgkin.  His work, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":19312,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[542],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dispatches-from-the-field"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19306"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21061,"href":"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19306\/revisions\/21061"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}