FluidArt 3 Painting

Anthony Marshall has worked and taught as a professional artist/photographer for over 30 years. His work has been shown in many exhibitions in painters’ galleries around the UK. He has undertaken numerous art and design projects with multinational companies, national and private collections including Laura Ashley, Hallmark, Epson, Chatsworth and RIBA. His artwork has been sold in over 50 countries. I have been listening to jazz since I was twelve years old, and it was the improvisations that excited me, the ability to spontaneously move in and around the original theme with apparent effortless ease, or so it seemed! Henri Cartier-Bresson said “The camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity". At the heart of my work is the creation of an extensive archive of photographic sketches, but you could also start with a water colour, a drawing, oil painting or film based photograph.  Although my work starts with a photograph I think like a painter, my compositions are minimalist and use the visual language of shape, form, texture and colour.  They are created using a very fluid intuitive technique of image capture, improvising with the light on any given day, then making composites by blending two or more images. Maintaining the integrity of the high resolution sketches throughout is paramount as they will be used at a later stage to create the large exhibition artworks. In essence this means retaining the file size of the original photographic sketch throughout the entire process. All this work is done on my iPad Pro using 6 apps.