The Art Gallery
Anthony Marshall
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Anthony Marshall has been a professional landscape photographer for over twenty years. He works from his home in the Peak District National Park, Derbyshire, England.
"Throughout the history of photography, the structure of the image has fascinated photographers. In the early days of this preoccupation with structure it was known as “Formalism”. From the 1920’s through to the 1970’s Edward Weston, Brett Weston, Siskind and others spent some part of their careers experimenting with the structure of the image, whether they were photographing ice shapes, rocks, weathered wood or other simplified subjects. One of the interesting aspects of photographs taken in this style has been their success in the gallery. This imagery is refined , but not involved with any difficult issues of content. It raises no political, moral or social questions, neither is it provocative. Formalist pictures rely on elegance of design and are timeless in their appeal. My "Liquidlight " series of images follows on from the Formalist tradition although it is no longer called “formalism”. It draws its inspiration from the extraordinary properties of water. More than two-thirds of the earth’s surface is covered with liquid water. Pure water has no colour, taste, or smell. A pinhead-sized drop of water contains about one billion billion molecules. These attract each other powerfully, especially at the surface, where their mutual attraction forms a strong skin, known as surface tension. Water has an ability to change state easily and is always on the move, my "Liquidlight " imagery attempts to capture natural abstract designs from the fleeting moment when light is reflected off the surface of water.
All the photographs I now produce are created and
printed for sale in fine art galleries. I have had
over thirty one man shows around the UK and my work is held in private collections in Britain, the far east, Europe and the USA. I also create a small amount of decorative pieces printed onto textiles, which are sold in the interior design market. On the print making side of my work I specialise in photographing original artworks such as oil paintings and water colours. I then provide a facsimile archival print service to museums, private collectors, artists, galleries and book publishers. For this work I use an Epson 3800 printer together with Innova fine art papers in particular 315gsm Smooth Cotton High White.
Facsimile means producing a print that perfectly matches the original."