I was born in Amman, Jordan in 1961. My father flew jet planes for the Royal Airforce and was stationed there. When I was 6 we moved back to England and I was sent to boarding school. Luckily art was encouraged and appreciated there as it was always the thing that defined me. I would draw like other people would read. (years later I found I was dyslexic!) (I was born in Amman, Jordan in 1961. My father flew jet planes for the Royal Airforce and was stationed there. When I was 6 we moved back to England and I was sent to boarding school. Luckily art was encouraged and appreciated there as it was always the thing that defined me. I would draw like other people would read. (years later I found I was dyslexic!)) In 1980 I enroled for foundation at CCAT Cambridge. I thought I’d gone to heaven, even the address was ‘Paradise St’. We just did art, every day. I specialised in printmaking, and went on to do a degree in illustration at Brighton. I graduated in 1984 and got my first commissions from Penguin Books. Mostly book covers (Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Aldous Huxley and P.G. Wodehouse), theatre posters for the National Theatre and record covers. I worked as an illustrator for 15 years, but I was also doing my own paintings and began showing them at Beaux Arts, Bath and Long and Ryle, London. Then in 1999 I had my first portrait accepted into the BP Portrait Award at the National Portrait Gallery. Another was accepted the following year and I was commended in 2002. This lead to my first portrait commissions, and I have been working as a portrait painter since then. Recently I have been teaching part time at the National Portrait Gallery. I have also had work exhibited at the RA Summer Show, Hunting Art Prize, Nat West Art Prize, Laing Art Prize, Royal Society of Watercolours, The discerning Eye, The Threadneedle Prize and The Lynn Painters and Stainers Prize. (http://www.markentwisle.co.uk/MEbiog.html) undefined

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