Mark Eberhard

Because artists can often create emotional connections between an audience and the artist's subjects, we have a special role to play of bringing an awareness to our natural environment.

Mark Eberhard received his first bird book from his grandparents at age five. He has been interested in and painting birds ever since. Mark's work deals more with the commonplace than the grand, with the animal often only one small element of the overall composition. An MFA from Yale combined with a close personal relationship with nature – its forms, colors and textures – form the basis of his paintings.

Born, raised and currently living in the lush river lowlands near Cincinnati, Mark is at home painting the many avian species that frequent his bird feeders. He also enjoys gathering reference materials during his travels and painting species not found in the Ohio Valley.

He has won numerous awards both regionally and nationally and his paintings can be found in public and private collections including the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum and the National Museum of Wildlife Art.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum - "Birds in Art"

National Museum of Wildlife Art - "Wildlife Art for a New Century II"

Society of Animal Artists - "Art and the Animal"
     Two-time Recipient of Award of Excellence

Great American Artists - Invitational 

National Museum of Wildlife Art - "Western Visions: Miniatures and More"

Cincinnati Museum Center - "Journey to the Edge: The Edge Collections"

Southeastern Wildlife Exposition 

Plantation Wildlife Arts Festival - Featured Artist 2004

Carnegie Center for the Arts - Solo Exhibition

Arts for the Parks - Top 100

Federal Duck Stamp Top Twenty

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Southwest Art Magazine
      Cover
      "Taking Flight"

Northlight Books
     "The Best of Wildlife Painting II"

Wildlife Art Magazine 
     "Flight of Fancy"
     "Creativity Part I: The Prize of Humanity"

InformArt Magazine
     "Mark Eberhard's Witty, Elegant Design"

Gray's Sporting Journal
     Cover

Cincinnati Post
     "A Natural Avocation"
     "Painter's Work Takes Flight"

Cincinnati Enquirer
     "Birds Take Flight"