Cynthia Barlow Marrs
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About Cynthia Barlow Marrs
Find me on Twitter as @cbarlowmarrs
I draw on memories of grasslands, woodlands and the tropics
to create colourful pocket guides to an imaginary world.
I am inspired in equal measure by both science and art. These dual interests stem from a life-long fascination with underlying structure, and the irresistible urge to experiment.
I use techniques developed through trial and error, colouring papers by hand with watercolour, inks, pastels and acrylic glazes, and cutting or tearing these into shapes that I superimpose on coloured or white backgrounds.
The arc is a fundamental element in my art, and can be found in nearly every painting I create.
A detailed cut-paper painting can incorporate 100 or more slivers of colour, many of them the same shape. In some paintings the surface may be built up with as many as five layers of cut and torn papers. The idea is to engage the eye with colour, form and flowing line, so that the more one looks at a painting, the more one sees.
It’s slow-motion work. But the aim is to create a sense of movement, in bas-relief, across a canvas. Sometimes I feel like an animator working frame-by-frame to create a few seconds' worth of dynamic motion across a screen. I also think of subliminal perception, and how the hidden or partly visible structure of a painting influences the viewer.
The surface, edges and composition of a painting are particularly important to me. Positive and negative space are designed to complement each other. I work on each painting "in the round”, turning it as I go, to ensure that it holds together as a composition even when viewed upside-down. When I do this I am also looking for the source of energy in a work of art: it no longer surprises me if a painting, when turned on its side, suddenly comes alive.
In my Edge to Edge series I work across multiple canvases, some of which may be taken apart and reassembled in a new composition. A small-scale example of this is Water Meadow. On a larger scale is Four Seasons, a four-part painting 2.4m high that was commissioned for a private home. Largest of all is Undercurrents, the five metre-long collage which had its debut at the River & Rowing Museum in Henley-on-Thames from November 2007 till February 2008.
I have returned to England and my art and design roots after living and working in six countries as a landscape architect and environmental planner.
I started out with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Painting, and as an undergraduate would have gladly camped out in the life drawing studio. But my first love, at the age of five, was drawing pages and pages of Os and ellipses. The S-curve has been an obsession ever since, which I think partly explains my fascination with the human spine.
My drawings, paintings and collages are inspired not only by the human body but also by tropical and temperate landscapes; in particular the prairies of North America and, nowadays, the fields, fauna and flora of Windsor Great Park. I use repeated shapes of leaves, trees, grasses and wildlife to create stylised landscapes that borrow from the conventions of landscape architectural illustration: the sketched field observation, the surveyor's grid, the planting plan, the artist's impression.
In May 2009 I was elected an Associate Member of the Society of Graphic Fine Art.
My art is in private collections in the UK and abroad. I participate regularly in solo and group shows. Each year I take part in the Windsor Fringe artists' open house scheme and the Society of Graphic Fine Art annual exhibition, and most years you can also find me at the Windsor Contemporary Art Fair.
I live and work a stone's throw from Windsor Castle, and welcome requests to view art work by appointment. I happily undertake commissions.
Education BFA (Painting; Art Education), University of Oklahoma; MSc (Landscape Architecture), Oklahoma State University; MSc (Environmental Management), University of London, Wye College
Online portfolios www.artistsandillustrators.co.uk/CynthiaBarlowMarrs
www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/yourgallery/artist_profile//75140.html
www.sgfa.org.uk/Society-Members/-Associate~17/Barlow-Marrs~805.html
www.artselector.com/users/cbarlowmarrs
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