The work presses forward with the urgency of a child's cosmological diagram, yet its flattened planes of cadmium green and raw umber carry unmistakable echoes of Hockney's arboreal studies - colour as structural argument rather than decoration. Marsh layers a brown trunk against a chartreuse canopy punctuated by dark elliptical leaf-forms, each stroke insisting on its own presence within a rigorously naive pictorial logic.
The work presses forward with the urgency of a child's cosmological diagram, yet its flattened planes of cadmium green and raw umber carry unmistakable echoes of Hockney's arboreal studies - colour as structural argument rather than decoration. Marsh layers a brown trunk against a chartreuse canopy punctuated by dark elliptical leaf-forms, each stroke insisting on its own presence within a rigorously naive pictorial logic.
- Curatorial note, wifärt gallery