Author(s): Cross Mark

Fine Art

Mark Cross was born in Auckland, New Zealand in 1955. He trained as a precision engineer whilst painting during available spare time. Meeting his future wife Ahi in the mid-'70s they travelled with a young family in 1978 to her homeland of Niue. They stayed there for four years during which time he painted and studied art history through the meagre resources available to him. In the early '80s he started to devote his whole time to painting, exhibiting regularly in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch, while returning intermittently to Niue. After the death of their eldest daughter from cancer the Cross family returned to Niue in 1995 where Mark and Ahi are now based. This book is a collection of Mark Cross' work, produced by the John Leech Gallery.