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Anthony Marshall

Hathersage, Derbyshire, United Kingdom

Anthony Marshall has worked and taught as a professional artist/photographer for over 30 years. His ...

About the artist

Anthony Marshall

Joined In 2013

(51 Followers)

About the artist

Anthony Marshall

Joined In 2013

(51 Followers)

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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...

Self Taught

My next exhibition : Derbyshire Open Arts 24th to 26th May 2014 Moorland House, Hathersage, Derbyshire.
11am to 4pm