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The family relocated to British Columbia in the early 1970s. Mark's father, Harry Heine, eventually became one of Canada's most celebrated artists, culminating with his election to the Royal Society of Marine Artists in England. He is the only Canadian to ever have achieved this status.
At age 10, Mark won the first of several national art competitions. He was awarded the BC Lieutenant-Governor's Art Scholarship in 1979, at age 18. Four years later, he graduated with honours from the Applied Arts Program at Capilano University. Brush in hand, he established his own studio, over the course of 30 years, to become one of North America's most sought-after talents, working through agents in New York, Philadelphia, Toronto, Vancouver and Tokyo.
Corporate commissions for the likes of Sony, Disney, Starbucks, and many others, garnered him more than 40 national and international awards. Those included a Prix Olympia bronze medal for paintings, commissioned by Canada Post, for stamps commemorating Canada's team at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin.
In 2009, the Postmaster of Liechtenstein commissioned Mark to paint two original works for stamp application, commemorating the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver. The commissions kept coming, and Mark's art is now showcased on 26 postage stamps in circulation in North America and Europe.
In 2006, Mark shifted his focus to fine art. As an emerging gallery artist, he has had a number of successful solo shows in Western Canada and the U.S. Pacific Northwest and appeared in group shows in both North America and Europe, becoming best known for his figurative works in oil on canvas. Mark is also an enthusiastic and imaginative writer. He has always created a written narrative for each of his works, and several of his articles on painting have been published.
In the process, he has learned that, at heart, he is a storyteller, and that each of his paintings is a captured moment in a larger story. Bringing one of those stories to life, marrying fiction to painting, is the focus of his most recent works.
Mark, his partner and creative collaborator, Lisa Leighton, and their two daughters, Sarah and Charlotte, live in beautiful Victoria on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
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