Cynthia Barlow Marrs SGFA

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Water Meadow

A painting in four parts.

Original
Acrylic glazes and cut papers on water colour board
25.5cm x 35.5cm
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Kite Salmon

Original
Hand-coloured papers on canvas board
20cm x 20cm
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Pollen Count

Pollen grains under an electron microscope: planetary.

Original
Acrylic glazes and cut papers on canvas
25cm x 30cm
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Wave (oblique detail)

Original
Acrylic glazes and cut papers on water colour board
20cm x 20cm
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Benguela Nino

Original
Acrylic glazes and cut papers on paper
23cm x 27cm
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Flamingo

When I look at this painting I think of party balloons and of plastic flamingos, and how, as students of landscape architecture, we would make ironic use of this kitsch garden ornament.

Original
Acrylic glazes, pastel and hand-coloured papers on canvas
30.5cm x 30.5cm
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Saturn's Rings

Hand-coloured papers on water colour paper.

Original
Collage
17.5cm x 25.5cm
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Sea Anemone (detail)

Acrylic glazes and hand-coloured papers on canvas
40cm x 40cm
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Tropic of Capricorn

Original
Acrylic glazes and cut papers on canvas
13cm x 18cm
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Snow Dunes

Hand-coloured papers and gesso on canvas. The blades of grass have been cut and applied piece by piece, each one shaped to fit its position in the painting.

Original
Collage
46cm x 122cm
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Dawn

Original
Acrylic glazes and cut papers on water colour board
25cm x 30cm
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Dusk

Original
Acrylic glazes and cut papers on water colour board
25cm x 30cm
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Blue Border

Blue Border and its companion Blue Clematis explore effects of light seen through and between petals and leaves.

Gesso, acrylic glazes and hand-coloured papers on canvas board.

Original
Collage
40cm x 40cm
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Heuchera

Original
Acrylic glazes and hand-coloured papers on canvas.
25cm x 30cm
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Starflower

Acrylic glazes and cut hand-coloured papers on water colour board

Original
Collage
30cm x 24cm
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Rugosa 1

Frame by J Manley Gallery of Eton

Original
Collage
25cm x 31cm
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Zebra Leaves

Original
Drawing ink, acrylic glazes and cut papers on canvas board
40cm x 60cm
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Leaf Fall 5

Acrylic and drawing ink on water colour paper1
7.5cm x 17.5cm
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Leaf Fall 4

Original
Drawing ink and printing ink and cut papers on paper
17.5cm x 17.5cm
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Blue Leaf

Collage

Original
Collage
17cm x 12cm
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Blue Lotus

Original
Acrylic and cut papers on watercolour paper
12cm x 17cm
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Pink Lotus

Original
Acrylic glazes and cut papers on paper
12cm x 17cm
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Leaf Fall 2

I'm drawn to leaves and feathers. And only the flexible nib of a quill could skitter so beautifully over the irregular surface of this heavy handmade paper.
Thanks to John A Parks, Leaf Fall 2 is in the Winter 2010 issue of Drawing magazine, along with drawings by Rembrandt, da Vinci and contemporary artists, in "The Quill Pen - Draw with a Tool of the Masters" (complete with illustrated directions for making your own quill pen!).

Original
Drawing ink and printmaker's ink on Khadi paper
26cm x 20cm
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Red Leaves

Hand-coloured papers on paper.

Collage
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Leaf Fall 6

Acrylic and drawing ink on water colour paper
17.5cm x 17.5cm
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Urban Fringe

Kandinsky meets town planning meets bass and treble clefs: a one-off of hand-cut slivers of layered colour.

Original
Hand-coloured papers on water colour board
20cm x 25.5cm

Yellow Marsh

Original
Printing ink and cut papers on paper
25cm x 20.5cm
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Tidal Pool

Original
Printmakers' ink and cut papers on water colour paper
22.5cm x 22.5cm
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