Seth Marshall
Degree: BA Fine Art
University: Falmouth University
Graduation Year: 2016
Artist Statement
I'm most affected by imagery - whether from direct observations in daily life or from myriad technological reproductions of images through an ever-growing profusion of devices. Making sense of such a potential overload of visual information requires a decision-making process of selection when choosing an image as representational material in the painting process. Subject matter is almost irrelevant to me - the proliferation of this visual information renders any thematic connection from one image to the next, somehow diluted in importance. In a sense, the subject is negated from the image and that is what connects them and makes them the same somehow. There is a freedom, therefore, as detachment from subject and obvious meaning can be superseded by, perhaps, subtle nuance in colour, tone, brushstrokes for instance - the image can be the vehicle for a more subconscious communication of an abstracted and ambiguous visual language. The shape of a sky against rooftops, for instance, becomes a starting point or component for a composition; a recession of space or void inspires an area of rich colour. Within this context of evaluating potential source material, the possibilities for inspiration can come from anywhere and are boundless.
Exhibitions
2016, Fine Art Degree Show, Falmouth, Cornwall
2012, Kumi Middleton & Seth Marshall, Thoresby Gallery, Nottinghamshire
2011, The Hamsphire Art Fair, Upper Clatford
2011, Painters 4- UK to CA, Bath Academy Gallery, Ontario, Canada