Rear View oil on linen 29x41 cm 2018 (private collection)
Mountain and Sky oil on linen 37x27.5 cm 2018 (private collection)
Pink Wall oil on linen on board 40x29.5 cm 2018 (private collection)
Sunset and Tree oil on canvas 40.5x36 cm 2018 (private collection)
Dappling Gums oil on canvas 41x36 cm 2018 (private collection)
Golden Mean oil on board 41x31 cm 2018 (private collection)
Twilight Path oil on linen on board 40x28 cm 2018 (private collection)
Morning Silhouettes oil on canvas 46x45.5 cm 2018 (private collection)
Tree,Mountain,Lake oil on canvas 45x40 cm 2018 (private collection)
Road Trip oil on linen 40x31 cm 2018 (private collection)
Vista oil on canvas 40x35.5 cm 2018 (private collection)
A Narrow View oil on linen 40x33 cm 2018 (private collection)
Blossom Study oil on linen 41x51 cm 2018 (private collection)
Twilight Horizon oil on canvas 41x46 cm 2018 (private collection)
Road Trip
For this exhibition, ROAD TRIP, Marshman includes a series of evocative vignettes, where her painted works offer intriguing cropped views of the landscape, as though glimpsed from a car, with an abstracted effect. Painting in oil, on a combination of linen, canvas and board, this series was first inspired by a road trip through New Zealand’s South Island last year.
In relaying her travel stories from the open road, Marshman fosters an intimacy with the viewer by offering up her subject filtered through memory and steeped in subjectivity. This body of work is not only rich in narrative, it is unified by an arrestingly harmonious palette inspired by the seasonal local colour witnessed on her travels.
“I was very drawn to painting the majestic scenery I saw, but it was a struggle not to make paintings that were too pretty. Zooming in on elements and closely cropping images helped push these paintings in a more abstract direction”
– Melinda Marshman
