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Little Tree,” and “Mind in The Waters,” Mrs. Marshall explained.
“Cathy Kiley, Tut Harris, Chris White and Carol Lucking are helping with the performance,” the artist said, explaining Ms. Kiley and Ms. Harris have both had experience with directing dance.
“They have been so helpful,” Mrs. Marshall said, adding this is the first time she has directed and written a piece. “This is a collaboration of all the people involved,” she said of the Saturday night presentation.
“I needed to put all the aspects of art together,” she said of her presentation, the first of its kind to accompany an exhibition at Middle Street Gallery. “I needed to do this, just like I need to paint.”
“I knew I wanted to do it all,” she said of the piece and the several art mediums she plans to use. “I started out with a lot more than I am ending up with,” she said with a smile, adding one dream she had planned not to use in the show, has now become part of the presentation.
Mrs. Marshall paints dreams, thus the name of her show, “Dreaming in the Pursuit of Light.”
Light is a “metaphor for God, courage, truth,” she said, adding the dreams she captures in oil are not only hers but dreams others share with her as well.
“I like the oils,” she said of her work, dramatic to the eye and bold to the memory. “I like the Renaissance. They have substance, like the oil. They are thick and gooey and they will last through time,” she said.
It’s the dream that remains with the viewer. Bold, dark colors are softened by a gentle pastel of blue sky and a glimmer of gossamer of an angels’ wing. Dark, rich soil is emphasized with the strength of the stag, a common motif in Marshall’s work. Simple is the background in the precise immoralization of Marshall’s husband’s great-aunt, yet striking the attention is the deep and sensitive eyes, the warmth of the face, and the gentleness of her character.
Ghostly is the church, white against the blazing blackness of night, as it reflects its “light” into the darkened water.
It’s about the good and evil in life, because, said Marshall, “I have good and evil in me and I have to work at being honest ahd not let the fear of evil overpower me.”
Her work is about potential of life and the quest for truth and the harmony of life between human and animal kingdoms and the infinite power of children.
“This is the reason that 70 percent of the proceeds from this presentation will benefit Save The Children,” Mrs. Marshall said.
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