MARK ADAMS is a painter, printmaker, and a cartographer with the National Park Service based on Cape Cod and Martha's Vineyard since 1987. He focuses on works of art that use layered images of maps, personal notebook pages, text, data and images of animals and friends in light accumulation on paper and wood panels. Adams harvests curiosity and wonderment as source material and works to describe things, places and circumstances that imperfectly represent the nature to our society. Recent work includes a suite of original mixed media drawings that explore the nature of solitude. This set of twelve works on paper are also available as a boxed portfolio in an edition of ten.

Adams has taught at the Provincetown Art Association, Castle Hill Center for the Arts (Truro MA), and the Provincetown School Academy program and as a guest in the MFA program of the Fine Arts Work Center/Massachusetts College of Art. He has studied ecology, landscape architecture, printmaking and photography at University of California, Berkeley, California College of Arts and Crafts and studied with artists at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. He also worked as a wildlife field biologist, scientific illustrator, forest fire fighter, gymnastics coach. His current interests include geologic time, taxonomies, coordinate systems and layering of information in maps.