MARSHALL WILLIAMS  CONTEMPORARY PAINTINGS 2010 

Exhibiting Level One Open Gallery and Spoho Galleries Annex

Marshall Williams in his new series of paintings continues to capture the elements within the sea, the sky, the horizon and the landscape …..soft  colour, contrasting with dramatic hues , pale softness subsuming glazes of gold and sepia…. Images and moods of boats languishing in the calm reflective waters, a shimmer all around, pinpricks of light in the distance. Light reflected in that still dark water, the hull, a lonely body, in a sea of gentle feathering grey. Maybe the inky blackness of the depths or lightened by a glow of an ethereal distant light source, maybe from the sky above. … Long horizons, melting into the night, crimsoned red, flaring, flaming burning as a last dramatic gesture to a diminishing day. A warm hot dusk, horizon lines the haze of a transient and heated day, cooled by the indigo blue of night time air, …………..the sea and the long empty horizons, buildings, boats and landscape all encompassing the emotional force , the moods, colour and drama, moments of an un folding twilight sky.      Marshall Williams 2010  

Marshall Williams lives and works in Melbourne as a full time practicing 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 . 

The waterways and light of Sydney Harbour, her boats, and reflections  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 .  

'A glimpse of distant buildings, softly defined in the shadow and fall of ethereal light, glowing then disappearing into the haze…… the glow of the first night lights, building touched in the twilight tinge, dinghy's basking in their summer glow. 

The summer of reflected light bouncing off mirrored water, tankers quietly moving past, signaling departure, the softened forms drifting into the haze'.