Anthony Marshall Artist

"Sheffield Botanical Gardens" My New book/ebook is a very personal contemporary view of the garden, finding new viewpoints in order to develop more abstract compositions. This is not a botanical book, nor does it provide sweeping open vistas of the garden, instead I take a minimalist view and focus on detail, texture, shape, natural abstract design and colour. My inspiration each time I visited the garden was the quality of light on that day. I was not trying to create images of particular trees, plants or views, but to be free to be led by the elements on any given day. This also gave me the freedom to interpret each image to create a visual essay of the garden in 2012. The impressionist painters visited their locations over and over again, and following on from that tradition I have visited the garden more than fifty times. Considering we have had the wettest year on record, actually the garden has never failed to supply an extraordinary range of colour and effects though out the year.

The images in this book are a mixture of painting and photography. The starting point for all the imagery is a digital photograph, which is then downloaded to my iPad for interpretation, painting and composite work.

To view my new ebook "Sheffield Botanical Gardens" go to Links page and click on the blurb ikon.

Also available on ibooks.