What do you use as a job title?
Digital Image Maker. Although if I'm at a party I just say I'm a web designer - that way nobody's confused and I can move on and mingle.

Which techniques do you use?
Digital painting, 3D applications and photography.

What inspires you?
1, Spectral late night friends
2, Warm baths
3, Sketching without thought on scraps of paper.
4, Words, conversation.
5, Art that conveys multiple levels and inner stories.
6, Artistic possibilities offered by technology.
7, Parody, humour and the unselfconscious behaviour of animals.
8, Being trapped in the mind of a child befuddled by the world.
9, Art and people that are playful.
10, Tiredness - when everything looks a little strange
11, Art or music that is happy and sad at the same time.
12, Nicotine and chocolate.

Mark Bannerman was originally intended to be born in 1915 to an artistic wealthy family. Instead due to an astral miscalculation, Mark was finally born in 1965, the second son to a sarcastic, peripatetic working class Scottish family, whom he tolerated and slowly grew to love. His early years were spent in Singapore playing in monsoon drains and biting cockroaches. Nobody else in Mark's family can draw although his brother claims to have once drawn "a very good cow" but could never repeat it.

Trained as a graphic designer in Scotland, Mark went on to become a successful illustrator working in London before returning back to Scotland; where he finds being taken seriously whilst not taking yourself seriously are not so mutually exclusive. Other artistic endevours have included illustrating professionally under two other pseudonyms, working as a fine artist, a web designer, an art director and a lecturer in visual communication.

As a student at art school Mark took a job as a fork lift truck mechanic's assistant in a paper mill which Mark ranks as perhaps his finest hour and happiest career move, " It's the only job I ever did that gave me good muscle definition and the first and only time I could remove my shirt comfortably in public".

Mark is married, has one adorable baby son ( who looks like his Mother but has Marks' hands and feet ) and lives on the east coast of Scotland perched on a windy hill over looking the sea.