Mark Reep’s intimate, richly detailed Ink, Graphite, and Charcoal drawings invite close examination: “The more closely you look,” Mark says, “the more you\'ll find in them. My drawings are windows on quiet places, on solitary journeys, on dreams. They’re about explorations, and discoveries- Moments when, as Robert Henri said, ‘we seem to see beyond the usual.’ And so, hopefully my drawings may serve as doors of a sort, as well.”

“Inked elements are created using the traditional pen-and-ink technique of stippling. Building up layers of tiny ink dots is seldom quick work- But in an age of digital image editors, this time-honored process remains the best way I’ve found to develop the textures, surfaces, and depth I want to achieve. Other elements may begin with a loose ‘underpainting’ of powdered charcoal, applied with less traditional tools; detail is then developed and refined with graphite pencils.” To read more about this process, visit the About The Drawings page on Mark’s website.

Born in 1960, Mark has been making art for most of his life. A stonemason and arborist, poet and musician, photographer and draftsman, Mark is a self-educated artist whose drawings reflect his love of inaccessible wilderness, and meticulously tended paths; of centuries-old ruins, and newly-mown greens; of light and shadow, of line and flow; of composition and improvisation; of mysteries, of stories, and dreams.

Mark’s drawings have been exhibited in galleries, museums, and juried exhibitions for over a decade. His drawings been acquired by private collections throughout the United States and abroad. Mark lives and works in the hill and lake country of Northern Pennsylvania.