61 x 40 cm | 24 x 15 in
Subject: Landscapes & Nature
Tags:
Sky,
Dusk,
Pink,
Window,
Sunrise
Original painting in oil on canvas-panel.
"Continuing with a theme from sunrises and sunsets through windscreens with raindrops, whereby the glass and raindrops add another layer to the depth of field. I'm most interested in the point where my attention is drawn to the surface of the canvas, where the raindrops appear to sit - and how that relates to my perception of the blurred illusion of space, receding into the landscape beyond."
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.