Marilyn Study

Toni Cogdell

21 x 29 cm | 8 x 11 in


Subject: People
Tags: Celebrity Culture, Blonde, Marilyn


Original mixed media painting in pen, ink and acrylic on paper.

"Ongoing experimentation in the studio, part of a series of paper works. Sometimes I'll be pulled towards an iconic figure, someone I feel something for, but I'm looking to explore something behind the 'image' the media has portrayed to us; something of the fragile and strong human behind it, something unseen but recognised by us on some level. Trying to connect what is seen with what is felt, and what is lived."


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Toni Cogdell

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The subjects of Toni Cogdell’s portraits crystallise in the midst of colour and texture’s motion, like the scattering of light across a garden. Literary and art historical allusion situate these paintings in a continuum of artistic achievement, and they examine the solitary moment of introspection that is the beginning of all such discoveries. They emerge from – or they surge toward, and are suspended within –  the abstract backdrop of their environment. The holistic scene is constructed by harmonising subtle tones with elements of boldly coloured, gestural brushwork; these paintings follow the terra incognita of the soul: a work in progress. 

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