Exhibition
Comments:
ALL THE BEST GROUP EXHIBITION - December 11 to January 31
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 2011
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, signalling departure, the softened forms drifting into the haze’
Artist Statement:
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.
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