by
Cynthia Barlow Marrs
Undercurrents is a ten-part painting five metres long. Three panels are shown at right.
Colour flows across the canvases in a way that is intended to suggest the flow of narrative in a story.
The exhibition ran from Nov 2007 - Feb 2008 at the River & Rowing Museum in Henley-on-Thames, then travelled to The West Wing arts centre in Slough in 2008 as part of my exhibition Shadow and Light.
http://www.kallaway.co.uk/rrm-press-release4.htm
Original Mixed Media on Canvas
120cm x 500cm
POA
What does a story feel like before you find the words to tell it?
In 2006, during a creative writing course at the River & Rowing Museum, I was mulling over the ways in which the narrative flow of stories might be similar to the flow of water in a river. I also thought about my experience designing flood channels in my previous career as an environmental planner.
It seemed to me that, when it comes to both rivers and writing, we fail to appreciate just how much goes on beneath what might appear to be a calm surface.
Undercurrents was an attempt to bring together the art, the environmental planning and the writing by diving under the surface of an imaginary river of words.
river water landscape
