David Marshall
Growing up in Walton on the Naze I developed a passion for the seashore in all its many varieties: The cliffs and beach, the tidal mudflats, the snaking creeks and the winding sea walls; all beneath a wide sky full of the East Wind roaring in from the sea. It was only when I left the coast and put distance between myself and the Essex shore I came to realise this passion in a series of paintings of the fore-shore in many of its moods; incorporating sand, pebbles, straw and saw-dust to recreate its textures.
Summer expeditions to Suffolk took me to Shingle Street, Bawdsey or Orford with a sketching easel and paints, resulting in on the spot sketches which I later 'worked up' in the studio. In the winter I would go to the coast with a camera and produce photographic montages to work into the larger pictures. It seems necessary to distance myself from the subject matter to build images I hope contain the essence of the sea shore.
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'Rain on the Oakley Shore' Oil on board 48" x 32" |
'Creek, Post and Tower' Oil on board 32" x 48" |
'Winter Seascape' Oil on board 32" x 48" |
"A break in the Clouds "Oil on Board 48" x 32" |