Original artwork description:

Mark featured in my solo exhibition 'City of Plymouth Adorned', a collection of paintings illustrating local peoples' adornments. These could be demonstrating their culture, style, achievement, status, belief, honour.
Mark lost both legs at the groin and his right arm whilst serving as a Royal Marine in Afghanistan.
His adornments aren't his prosthetic limbs...as many assume, but the sticker in place of his old tattoos on his prosthetic right arm...a picture and quote from the late Bruce Lee "Pray not for an easy life, but for the strength to endure a difficult one". It has become Mark's mantra.

Materials used:

oils

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#endurance #adornment #mark ormrod #land mines #afghanistan war 

Mark Ormrod Adorned (2014) Oil painting
by Jo Beer

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Mark featured in my solo exhibition 'City of Plymouth Adorned', a collection of paintings illustrating local peoples' adornments. These could be demonstrating their culture, style, achievement, status, belief, honour.
Mark lost both legs at the groin and his right arm whilst serving as a Royal Marine in Afghanistan.
His adornments aren't his prosthetic limbs...as many assume, but the sticker in place of his old tattoos on his prosthetic right arm...a picture and quote from the late Bruce Lee "Pray not for an easy life, but for the strength to endure a difficult one". It has become Mark's mantra.

Materials used:

oils

Tags:
#endurance #adornment #mark ormrod #land mines #afghanistan war 
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Selected for the Herbert Smith Freehills Portrait Award Exhibition, National Portrait Gallery 2025. I am a figurative painter based in Cornwall. People are amazing, there is no such thing as... Read more

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