David Marl
And Suddenly I Saw
10 February - 9 March 2024
There are times, there are places, when we seem to get a glimpse of something other - a sudden sense of something beyond our material world. In Celtic Christianity there were places referred to as ‘thin places’, where heaven seemed close by. In a sense many of my paintings are attempts to capture moments like these, places like these - fleeting snatches of something beyond. I have found guides - artists like William Blake, Samuel Palmer or Cecil Collins - they push me in a certain direction but the journey is mine. But all journeys need those moments of rest, and still-life painting produces this - and I love its focussed meditation on here and now, where the margins of the world are reduced to the space between myself and the objects painted.
David Marl 2024
Still Life I
oil on board
13 x 18 cm
£ 500
Still Life II
oil on board
13 x 18 cm
£ 500
Still Life III
oil on board
13 x 18 cm
£ 500
Still Life IV
oil on board
13 x 18 cm
£ 500
Still Life V
oil on board
13 x 18 cm
£ 500
Still Life VI
oil on board
13 x 18 cm
£ 500
Still Life VII
oil on board
13 x 18 cm
£ 500
Butterfly painting I
oil on board
13 x 18 cm
£ 500
Arrival, triptych
oil on board
15 x 20 cm
£ 560
T. S. Eliot walks to East Coker
oil on board
13 x 18 cm
£ 500
Pentecost - enthusiasm and degrees of detachment
oil on board
13 x 18 cm
£ 500
Is not the vision to the world an amiable thing?
oil on canvas
13 x 18 cm
£ 500
Annunciation with Nasturtium
oil on board
11 x 22 cm
£ 530
The Edge of Eternity
oil on board
13 x 18 cm
£ 500
Annunciation
oil on board
13 x 18 cm
£ 500
Sometimes the journey is fierce with promise
oil on board
13 x 18 cm
£ 500
Dreams, our bright fish, swim in dark waters
oil on board
13 x 18 cm
£ 500
Night Thoughts (the elusive nature of belief VI)
oil on board
13 x 18 cm
£ 500
Quartet 1
oil on board
26 x 36 cm
£ 1500
Quartet II
oil on board
26 x 36 cm cm
£ 1500