The brother of painter Bernie Horton, he paints regional South Carolina landscape scenes, and operates a gallery in Charleston.

Mark Kelvin Horton studied art at the East Carolina University School of Art in North Carolina. After graduating in 1983, he moved to New York where he worked as an artistic director and designer. In 2001, he moved back to the South and settled in Charleston, SC where he has dedicated himself to painting full-time. Horton's work documents the beautiful effects of weather and light on the landscape.

Mark Horton is an artist who was born and raised in rural Eastern North Carolina. He earned his BFA from East Carolina University in 1983 and had a successful advertising and design career in New York City before returning to the South in 2001. He currently lives and paints in Charleston, South Carolina.