Mark Witzling - Oil and Cold Wax

As a marketing and branding strategist, Mark spent his professional career around writers, designers and artists who visually shaped his ideas. It wasn’t until a trip to Italy that he was moved to helm his own creative trek. Stirred by the frescos of Rome and Florence, where art was intended to be part of the
landscape, he picked up a brush when he returned home, diving headfirst into a variety of creative experiences to unleash his own artistic ambition.
His foundation began in representational oil painting, but the combination of oil and malleable cold wax together with more introspective subjects steered
him toward abstraction. Studying in the studios of various artists he began to hone his craft. He has studied in studios across the country, from Santa Fe and Albuquerque to Wisconsin and Montana. His work appeared in the 2017 book Cold Wax Medium – Techniques, Concepts, Conversations and in 2020 he was
included in Artfolio 2020, A Curated Collection of the World’s Most Exciting Artists. Mark was also selected into the prestigious 2-year St. Louis Art Fair
Emerging Artist program in 2017-18, and in 2018 he was selected as an artist-in-residence at Chateau Orquevaux in France. He continues to paint regularly in
the same studio where he started over 20 years ago. When not in his studio painting, Mark is Executive Director of Craft Alliance in St Louis, MO.