Mark Sedgeman

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Mark Sedgeman, Painter and Sculptor, has loved art his whole life. Born and raised in Tawas City, Michigan on the shores of Lake Huron, Sedgeman began his artistic career at an early age drawing cartoons and caricatures of his friends and family. As a young man, he moved to San Francisco, California for a year. The innovative and provocative art scene there motivated him upon his return to major in art at the University of Michigan. In 1965, he earned his B.S.D. with a dual degree in painting and sculpture.

Sedgeman’s painting style is the unique product of fifty years of study and experimentation. Often referred to as an impressionist, Sedgeman admits that he has found insight from the works of Monet, Manet, and Degas. In addition to these masters, however, Sedgeman also pays homage to the works of post-impressionists Pierre Bonnard and Cezanne, 20th century sculptor Marino Marini, and J. M. W. Turner. By studying the masters, he discovers new ways to approach light, shape, and color. In the end, Mark’s style is the culmination of many techniques instinctually woven together to produce a painting.

Sedgeman’s sculpture goes hand in hand with painting. Working with a 3-D art form gives him a better understanding of distance and space as he renders his subjects on canvas. Sedgeman finds his painting subjects, both landscape and figurative, among the people and natural beauty that surround him in his current home in the Irish Hills area of Michigan. He says, “For my paintings, I just notice the life all around me.”

“In art, the figure is inseparable from its surroundings. My sculpting has given me a better understanding of the 3-D world in which my subjects exist!”

-Mark Sedgeman