86 x 123 cm | 33 x 48 in
Subject: Objects / Still Life
Tags:
Collage,
Steps,
Green,
Newspaper,
Spiral
Original painting in acrylic on wallpaper & newsprint on panel.
"I've been working with painted, photographic elements in random combinations in order to attempt to build up an illusion of space and spaces, combined with consideration for complementary colour and varied perceptions of surfaces ,achieved through the use of newsprints and wallpaper as grounds. The intention is to create a strong dynamic of representational space as well as an experience of potent, visceral colour."
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.