The Annunciation: A Pilgrim´s Quest de Mark Byford, (Winchester University Press, 2018)

'Artistic experience, as a spectator, and then, more directly, as an artist, has meant the possibility of transcending and reaching certain spaces that are intangible, but lived daily', he has said about his work. 'As a creator, to be in front of a blank canvas or a digital image to be manipulated, is to be faced with a challenge: that of translating to the language of forms, textures and colours something that has not yet been conceptualized, but that exists somewhere and that I desire to capture, expressing it through those materials and tools at my disposal. Thereby, it becomes a kind of game, in which time disappears and one enters into communion with the aesthetic experience with its infinity of moments, which go from pain to ecstasy. Self-taught experimentation in the field of art has been, for me, one of the great pleasures of life.'