31 x 31 cm | 12 x 12 in
Subject: Landscapes & Nature
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Warm
Original painting in oil on panel.
"I was visiting Truro Cathedral and was struck by the beauty and accomplishment of the stone carving throughout the building and especially at the Alter. I have a fascination in the concept of the purpose of spirituality, even though I am not a follower of any major religion. Blurring the image is an attempt to imagine a place between my sensory and perceived, ontological experience in relation to the physical environment that I am immersed in - a space that I'm trying, perpetually, to make sense of."
Sometimes the scene with the reality that strikes us most, seems to be a mirage. Seascapes immersed in light; a still life thrumming with colour; the woosh of an evening sky above a curving coastal road: Seth Marshall’s concern is the visual intensity of an image, and his paintings remind that this is a sensual experience.
In ‘Penlee Point’, one of Marshall’s Cornish scenes, we encounter a sheer impression in the radiating lines of light on water and the dark outline of the cliffs. The brushwork can be distinctly pared down and structural against the canvas. Urban scenes such as ‘Dusk, Summer’ use colour to track the gorgeousness of light contrasting the dark, and in Impressionist-inspired still lives colour is used joyfully, but with practised restraint. In the tradition of trompe l’oeil experimentation, Marshall’s interior and exterior spaces convey the truth of an image as a confluence of events: subject, object, and light wave.