About Us

Mark Persyn was born in San Antonio, Texas in 1960 and discovered a love for drawing as soon as he could hold a pencil. While in grade school in 1960s, he filled his notebooks with doodles and drawings. During his High School years in the 1970s, Mark began sketching the animals and interesting characters that inhabit Texas, along with landscapes from the diverse regions of the state. After graduating from The University of Texas at San Antonio with a Bachelor of Fine Art Degree in 1986, he began a career as an airbrush illustrator. For the next 18 years, he created illustrations for clients such as Pepsi Cola, Sea World, Blue Bell Creameries, Corona Brewing Company, Time-Warner Cable, Chrysler, Southwest Airlines and The San Antonio Spurs. By 1995, computers became advanced enough that Mark began rendering his illustrations digitally. In 1999, Mark, his wife, and four daughters. moved to Marble Falls, Texas where he made the transition from illustration to fine art. He began painting in oil on canvas in a style that was realistic, but based on small impressionistic strokes of color. His paintings are created entirely with a painting knife. Many of his Hill Country scenes were painted during this time. In 2020, Mark and his wife moved onto the bay of Laguna Madre in Corpus Christi, Texas where they spend their free time with thier family on the beach and fishing the bays. Many of Mark’s current paintings are inspired by this beautiful coastal region of Texas.