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Marshall in The Last Minute Wood Company, is also in the portrait gallery of familier county faces. The brush strokes catch the strength and beauty, the spirit of this remarkable woman who has found success in a traditionally male profession, carpentry, while at the same time never sacrificing, but rather reinforcing, her feminity.
A herd of cows crown together in another of Marshall’s paintings, their sad brown eyes watching the watcher. “I have an affinity for cows,” Marshall explained. “They’re so foolish, big and comforting. And I love milk,” she laughed, explaining the choice of subjects. Painting cows is also “a recreation against the pressure to be pretty,” Marshall added. “I love horses because they’re so graceful and beautiful. I paint cows because they’re not.”
Marshall’s collection of oils on wood that will be hung this weekend at Middle St. also includes landscapes of Rappahannock, its skyline at sunset, its mountains dressed in the deep greens of summer. The love she has for the countryside shows in her treatment. “I believe that Rappahannock County is my spot on this earth,” she said.
Outrage And Love
Marshall’s collages reflect a whole different side of her art. “I don’t know what I’m saying or trying to say,” she acknowledged. “They express my feelings of outrage and my feelings of love.” She believes that the collages are meant to be read as well as seen “with layers of meanings, ghostly images and words that appear and disappear.” She mixes mediums—lighter fluid transferrals from newspapers, color pictures from magazines, her paintings and photographs, xeroxed
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