A childhood desire to play with knives and a penchant for carving into tree bark inspired Mark Evans to create large-scale micro-sculptures from leather as an adult. Working with blades and knives of varying thickness, Evans carves photorealistic scenes, symbols, and figures into pieces of leather.

An obsessive perfectionist, Evans works with a surgical precision, taking months to complete a single artwork. By employing leather as both medium and material, he brings its primal, ancient qualities into the modern era. At the same time, he pays homage to prehistoric traditions through the nature-based symbols and imagery he chooses to carve.

James Mylne, was born in London in 1981. He is a contemporary artist known for his drawings in ballpoint pen. His technical abilities with the unorthodox art medium have earned Mylne recognition worldwide. The artist’s photorealistic likenesses of iconic celebrities attracted early media attention and continues to be one aspect of his output.

James Mylne only uses black ink when working, so to add colour, he employs acrylic, gouache, spray paint, magic markers and paint pens. James admits to being “passionate about detail”, which explains why one drawing can take between 120 to 250 hours to complete. The longest he has ever taken on one single drawing was 495 hours, which was on a recent artwork in 2021.

Interested in Art since early days it was when studying under Mestre Anjos for five years that his horizons opened to the art of sculpting.
Reinforcing that process he enrolled in the studies of “New marble Technologies” in Vila Viçosa and also studied in Sociedade Nacional de Belas Artes in Lisbon.

Being born in a region where extraction and transformation of marble has a strong presence this material naturally became his preferred medium for sculpting, not excluding nevertheless approaches to new materials and techniques, such as bronze and more recently resin.