MARSHALL WILLIAMS

CONTEMPORARY PAINTINGS

Marshall Williams lives and works in Melbourne as a full time practising artist. He studied fine art at Monash University , Caulfield Campus, has  taught fine art and photography , has work in numerous private and corporate collections, and has travelled extensively.

He lives and works over looking Port Phillip Bay and his work reflects his interests in the light, the water , and the sea and all those vessels that drift past his studio vista.

Reflections, distant lights, clouds, boats and skies being of fascination in a new series of his work. He maintains a strong formal and contemporary edge to his imagery, yet it also shows his interests in classical realism and a dialogue with the past .

Marshall Williams in his latest paintings continues with his absorption and focus upon the sea,  the isolated subtle shapes of boats,  silently drifting, the weathered ,washed and worn surfaces, the subtle curves of the hull, fore and aft, the drifting stillness of the solitary hull, mirrored in the waters, symmetrical,  reflected and floating within a sea of calm, the sea merging into the drama of the skies above, the fiery red of burning sunset clouds, the subtle softness of the waning light of day, the glow of dusk or of a deeper twilight sky, and upon the horizon, pinpricks of distant lights, still just apparent through the paleness of the harbour evening.....lights from buildings, a burning incandescence within the night, reflected and shimmering in the inky depths below, lights delineating the horizon, the atmosphere, the colour and mood of the skies above.