Marshall
Williams lives and works in Melbourne
as a full time practicing artist. He studied fine art at MonashUniversity,
Caulfield campus, hastaught 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 SydneyHarbour, her boats, and reflectionsbeing of fascination in a new seriesof 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’.
Artist Statement:
Marshall Williams in his new series of paintings
continues to capture the elements within the sea, the sky, the horizon and the
landscape …..softcolour, 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 MonashUniversity, Caulfield
campus, hastaught 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 SydneyHarbour,
her boats, and reflectionsbeing of
fascination in a new seriesof 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’.
