"Across The Globe"

Prior to completing “Sweet Love,”, John-Mark was commissioned to do a 24” x 24” painting of Prince book spines.  He enjoyed doing the Prince piece and liked working in a square format.  After working almost exclusively in a 24” x 48” format for 12 years, he wanted to do a square piece to add to his program.  Travel is a subject that John-Mark has been asked about by collectors over the years and is something John-Mark has always enjoyed.  In fact, the reason John-Mark relocated from Delaware to the Shenandoah Valley was that his family would frequently vacation there and he came to love the area as a result.  Mark Twain wrote, “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.”  Among John-Mark’s favorite destinations have been the Bahamas, Hawaii, Jackson Hole, London and Bermuda