Mark Andres is a son of Charles J. Andres and grew up in Maine.
He attended Berwick Academy and graduated at the top of his class.
While at Berwick, he began his professional career when he was contracted to illustrate a book of Maine humor, called Bert & I by Marshall Dodge and Robert Bryan.
He attended Williams College and worked as a free lance fine artist in Northampton Massachusetts for several years until he moved to Portland Oregon in 1990. Since that time, Mark has taught art classes at Portland Community College and other art schools in the Portland area. Mark has had many exhibitions of his work both in Portland and in Boston Massachusetts.