Limits of Spontaneity
Marlowe Emerson
Marlowe Emerson is a mixed media artist from Virginia Beach, Virginia who creates large scale abstract paintings using acrylic and collage techniques. The collage elements are obtained through drawing or photography, then sometimes digitally altered. Working with a range of media, including acrylic paints, various qualities of paper, and different types of pastels and pencils achieves a complex, textured finish.
Marlowe Emerson, Lotus, 2018 and But I Love You, 2019
“I love the emotional relationship with color and the immediacy of scribbling, mark making, and other expressionist techniques. The resulting layers of paint and paper become a testament to the ways in which art records individual experience.”
Rain, 2019
Marlowe Emerson
Mixed media on canvas
48 x 48 x 1 ½ inches
“My work is about exploring the limits of spontaneity in painting and drawing, playing with a tension between simplicity and complexity.”
Fire Child, 2019
Marlowe Emerson
Mixed media on canvas
48 x 48 x 1 ½ inches
“My process is intuitive and personal. It contrasts the attitude of organic forms frozen in time to the vibrant energy of the brushstroke.“
But I Love You, 2019
Marlowe Emerson
Mixed media on canvas
60 x 48 x 1 ½ inches
