Inspiration
The landscape has always been an inspiration. From its forms, lines and colours it has been a place of thought and research. Trystan Marshall has been influenced by the post industrial and natural landscape; often visiting his surrounding landscape, trying to discern some kind of understanding. Landscapes have so much diversity and different avenues in which to explore. He has become obsessed in trying to decode the landscape, attempting to understand it by looking into man made designs such as roads and buildings. Intertwining these with organic forms such as foliage and water, he has tried to contrast and connect the two in composition.
Trystan’s approach to this landscape was to simplify the forms and colour in the medium of paint; rebuilding the landscape, by layering and overlapping the forms. In doing this he has attempted to create a lost space and time. Trystan Marshall has stuck to a limited palette focusing on the colours, forms and lines that are natural in the landscape. His aims were not to focus on perspective qualities such as horizon lines, but to focus on the forms in question. By focusing on the forms and line, he is simplifying the traditional design of landscape, whilst aiming to talk about the break down of visual elements that make up landscape. The architectural design in terms of abstraction, sculpts the work to express the depth of the environment.
In his works relating to the woodland Kennel Vale, Trystan focused on looking close at how organic forms grow on man made forms. He decided to randomly splatter the paint on the paper or canvas, this action mimicking the random natural growth of the moss and lichen, whilst preserving the forms which they are found on.
Trystan’s approach to this landscape was to simplify the forms and colour in the medium of paint; rebuilding the landscape, by layering and overlapping the forms. In doing this he has attempted to create a lost space and time. Trystan Marshall has stuck to a limited palette focusing on the colours, forms and lines that are natural in the landscape. His aims were not to focus on perspective qualities such as horizon lines, but to focus on the forms in question. By focusing on the forms and line, he is simplifying the traditional design of landscape, whilst aiming to talk about the break down of visual elements that make up landscape. The architectural design in terms of abstraction, sculpts the work to express the depth of the environment.
In his works relating to the woodland Kennel Vale, Trystan focused on looking close at how organic forms grow on man made forms. He decided to randomly splatter the paint on the paper or canvas, this action mimicking the random natural growth of the moss and lichen, whilst preserving the forms which they are found on.
“I focused on the rock formations and decided to free up the marks of paint. The splatters of the lichen and moss that were on the walls and granite rocks, were almost gestures of paint themselves.”