Chris Marshall

Award-winning contemporary artist (mainly mixed media and digital art) born 1949 in Middlesex, UK now living in Perth, Western Australia with her photographer husband, Steve.I tend to think in layers and am fascinated by the blend of the traditional and the new. I'm inspired by colour and texture and the world around me and love to abstract from it and weave different aspects together to produce an integrated idea, view or statement. Most of my artworks are drawings, acrylic or mixed media paintings, photographs or digital art. The latter allows me to mix my media even more by combining my paintings, drawings and photographs and work with my light pen producing digital prints thus bringing together different strands of my life (computing background and love of art and photography).I have fun with my art and love to experiment and let my art come from deep within me so every artwork has something of me in it. I have won many awards for both my paintings and my digital art.In Western Australia I am a part of the Artists' Studios in the Old Kitchen Building of the stunning Heathcote Cultural Precinct in Applecross and Coordinator of the Atwell Arts Centre and Gallery for the Melville Community Arts Association (Inc). I am also a VIP ...