Since graduating in 1998 Mark has continued to paint and sculpt, exhibiting locally in Cumbria, nationally, and internationally. Perhaps prompted by the threat to the Arctic, Mark's recent work has taken on a Northern theme depicting creatures of forest and tundra and referencing prehistoric art. Animals such as reindeer and bison are presented inhabiting a diminished, fractured environment. As winter approaches reindeer migrate from tundra to forest, unsustainable logging is diminishing these winter refuges. Both reindeer and the snow bunting depicted in the sculpture migrate, the theme of migration is explored as a metaphor for our journey though life.