Mark powell

Artist Mark Powell uses a ballpoint pen to create finely detailed drawings on vintage newspapers, maps, book pages, and other paper scraps. Powell's

Illustration, Drawing, Fine Arts, Biro Pen, Ballpoint Pen

We’ve featured artist Mark Powell previously back in 2012. Revisiting his website, we spotted many exciting new works, that we’d like to introduce to you in the following update. Powell draws portraits of elderly people and animals on vintage envelopes, maps and other paper documents using ballpoint pens, beautifully staging the process of aging and […]

From his Brighton-based studio on the seafront, Mark Powell (previously) pieces together crinkled book pages and postcards laden with travel dispatches. The vintage collages serve as backdrops for the artist’s oversized portraits of older folks, whose pensive stares and deep wrinkles are rendered gently in ballpoint pen. Often magnified, the subjects complement the weathered, ephemeral surfaces that span multiple feet. “I’m currently working on a series of larger works because they have much…

Mark Powell art on Instagram: "Ballpoint pen drawings on antique ephemera"

From Leeds now in London. I draw with a Biro pen. I often run into the sea.

Mark Powell, whose work we discovered over at Colossal, draws incredibly detailed, sumptuous portraits on the backs of vintage envelopes with nothing but a regular old Bic Biro pen. These portraits, often of the elderly subjects, are drawn on the…

Mark Powell, is an artist known for his work with old, tattered, and stamped envelopes that serve as his canvas for Bic Biro drawings.

It’s been a couple of years since we last checked in on Mark Powell (previously here and here), who produces ballpoint pen portraits and illustrations of birds and people on vintage envelopes. Recently Powell has expanded his practice to include old maps as another form of canvas, drawing detailed faces and bodies that are given texture by the haphazard roads and regions that comprise the United States or Paris. More