Mark Evans, from Conwy, Snowdonia, creates famous portraits by etching on leather with a hand knife.

Mark works with large hides sourced from around the world and hand-etches them with various knives and scalpels.

The process takes huge patience and an eye for detail.

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Using surgical precision he carves away less than a tenth of a millimetre of leather.

His incisions create different tones in the leather surface as the tanned suede beneath is gradually revealed.

He calls his work “micro-sculpture” and spends months perfecting each piece.

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