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mark bagally

"I live on the Surf Coast of Victoria, and I’ve been painting since the late 1990's, finally taking the plunge into full time in 2016. I began my journey experimenting in oil and tried various mediums and genres until finally returning to oil and finding my niche as a landscape painter. I’m often asked how I got into art, given my previous occupation, as a police detective spanned 35 years and they seem polar opposites, well serendipitously in fact.

Not being interested in a life of leisure, I had decided art was going to be my next career, albeit I was starting later in life. The beauty of art is that you can start at any age. I set myself up in the garage at home and commenced to paint with gusto. The change in career had also coincided with sea change and a move to the Surf Coast of Victoria. I was immediately drawn to painting seascapes given my proximity to the Great Ocean Road.

I consider myself to be an impressionist painter and enjoy painting landscapes, seascapes, and urban street scenes. I enjoy the challenge of creating a believable impression of a scene and I am inspired by renowned past and present Australian landscape impressionists, several of whom I've had the pleasure of being tutored by over the years at various advanced workshops. I believe the key to my progression has been lots of practice (brush miles) and a disciplined self-education regime. I paint mostly in oil and indeed all of my commissioned work has been oil based. However, I have taken a real liking to watercolour which I find quite challenging. "