Mark Eaton was born in Pittsburgh, PA and raised in Seattle. He received some arts education from the Cornish School for the Allied Arts, though he is predominantly self taught.

Childhood experiences and teachings led him to sit and watch the world from within himself. The stillness and intensity with which he examined nature carry over to his approach in painting. In his landscapes, Mark searches for deeper understanding of himself, of a centralized “inner light” and strives to address universal concepts such as beauty, calm, faith and love. Patience is a concept he says he still finds illusive, though it is very evident in the attention and deliberateness with which his paintings are created. They are each a window into a unique world of their own, where light has a different tint and weight, and the air is humming with something other than in our dimension and yet within us.

As a young artist and at a pivotal point in his life, Mark realized that what he wanted to do was to learn how to paint the mystery of what is beautiful within and around us. Now a fulltime artist, Mark works in oils employing underpainting and glazing techniques. Favorite concepts are continually related to light, color and the balancing of opposites. He strives to invoke within the viewer their own relationships of these concepts within their own unique selves.

“To manifest something outward, in physical reality, one must find or have that something within.” - Mark Eaton