Marion Wood is a British abstract artist now living and working in the Camarillo area of Southern California and a Resident Artist of Studio Channel Islands.

 

"The invitation of the blank canvas and the purity of the act of painting, is what inspires me.
Having grown up in the English countryside, endless rainy days put drawing and eventually painting foremost in my pursuits, Through decades of filling the blank canvas, I broke into my own voice thrioughconstant experimentation. There is something raw and beautiful in the process of painting large canvases, using my whole body to inhabit the space, with no pre-meditation for the outcome, just having a conversation with the materials in that specific moment of time, I explore the balance of order and chaos and the joy and pain of creating. Leaving the gestures obvious to their origination; a drip, a flow or a strike, either emotional, playful, or aggressive, laying it bare for the viewer’s observation”

 

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