Mark Sheeky
As a child in the early 1980s, I loved computers and programming in BASIC on my Dragon 32, and I decided to work full time developing games. I made a few PD games for Amiga in the 90s, then taught myself C++ and developed and self-published a few PC titles.
In 2007 I decided to take art seriously. I've been a full time artist ever since; an oil painter, music composer and performer, and writer. I embrace the ups and downs of the artist life. I value human craft and skills, the physical, and rebel against the digital and virtual, and despise the easy. I strive to be futuristic, forward looking, risk taking. I create art like an eccentric surrealist genius.
My name comes from Irish Gaelic and means otherworldly, of the si; my ancestors were elves. My soul is spiritual, but my actions and life are rigorously ordered and intellectual. I want my art to be emotional and romantic, yet deep. Much of my output explores the schism between the emotions and rational, emotionless thought; the uniquely human processing of heart versus mind.