Mark Larkin

BLUFFTON-SOUTH CAROLINA METAL AND MIXED MEDIA SCULPTOR

Mark Larkin is an American born artist who earned a BFA Degree from the University of Nebraska at Omaha and completed a one-year Art Studies Programme at Manchester College of Art and Design in England. He studied with the great and under-appreciated sculptor, Sidney ‘Buz’ Buchanan in Omaha and Keith Godwin, a noted sculptor in England.


Mark put his art aspirations on hold for 25 years to pursue a professional career, but thinking he would someday return to making art. After retiring and moving to Hilton Head Island, he did just that!

His new works incorporate welded steel, but he combines many other media including found and fabricated objects, photos on steel, kinetic pieces and shaped wood. Larkin creates each artwork using his jack of all trades and "Rube Goldberg" like skills to produce original artworks. He likes to combine unusual methods with invented tools to create unexpected results.

"Larkin's sculptures are whimsical and he lets you in on the fun he has creating them!"

Mark's work is in private collections across the U.S. and in England. He is represented by the Pluff Mudd Gallery in Bluffton, SC, recently he Signature Gallery in Savannah, GA and the Anderson O’Brien Galley, Omaha, NE. He is a juried member of the Charleston Art Guild, Charleston, SC and has exhibited in many Galleries along the East Coast. His work has been included twice in the Public Art of the Low Country Biannual Exhibition on Hilton Head Island, ArtFields in Lake City, SC and has a permanent installation at Coligny Sidewalk Circle, Hilton Head Island called SANDY ROADS (To The Beach) and a sculpture on loan with the Hilton Head Town, located in the Veterans Park, Shelter Cove called EGRETIOUS.