Marc Hamer was born in the North of England and moved to Wales more than thirty years ago.
He has worked in art galleries, marketing, graphic design, as a magazine editor and taught creative writing in a prison before becoming a gardener and mole-catcher..
After spending a period homeless, then working on the railway, he returned to education and studied fine art.
Marc Hamer was born in the North of England and moved to Wales more than thirty years ago