Heavy Rainbows

Heavy Rainbows conveys an honest, no frills autobiographical account of how a single unforeseen event completely changed the direction of my life, and the subsequent adventures that followed involving devastating lows and euphoric highs that are unique, engaging, and inspirational.

Personal experiences and events that influenced my development as a person are told chronologically, culminating in a collection of artwork that conveys powerful emotionally charged contemporary issues such as global warming, mental health and animal welfare. Each chapter incorporates humour and satire that contrast with episodes of dark life changing experiences, offering the reader a thought-provoking unpretentious slice of reality, underpinned by art, to convey an in depth personal story involving triumph over adversity.    

                                                 Mark Cawood

Presently available in paperback, hardback and e-book format at Amazon, and other good bookstores

The book cover is from my oil painting Dark Spectrum of Light  60 x 50 cm, 2023.

Youtube Heavy Rainbows trailer: https://youtu.be/gst9g0bdRPA

The painting's composition was developed from an interest in alternative ways of seeing, including inanimate objects conveyed through multiple angles. The composition is concerned with pollution and advocates environmental conservation involving a broken guitar, fractured plant, cultural architecture and a rainbow,  each of which are illuminating out from the void. The plant appears to be alive, though certainly not thriving in its natural environment, a reference to climate change and the impending catastrophic consequences from man's pollution including excessive carbon emissions.

This version entitled The Heavy Sound of Light 60 x 50 cm, 2023, was originally submitted for the cover of my book Heavy Rainbows, however the publishes preferred Dark Spectrum of Light, shown above.

Heavy Rainbows is available in hardback, paperback and e-book format. The book contains over seventy full colour photographs of my artwork created from childhood to recent times, and further examples of work by artists that influenced my development including Picasso, Magritte, and Banksy.