68 x 41 cm | 26 x 16 in
Subject: Landscapes & Nature
Tags:
Sunset,
Sea,
Window
Original painting in oil on canvas panel, presented in a simple white wooden frame.
"I've become interested in photographic depth of field as a device for bringing into question perception of illusional space in my work. I'm fascinated by the depiction of represented surfaces in relation to the actual surface of the painting or support ( canvas etc.). In this painting I wanted the rain drops to seem as if they were on or near the surface of the canvas, whilst the blurred background is thrown into the distance in recessional, illusionary space."
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.