Some recent work for sale!

I'm sharing a selection some paintings that I have available through our studio, Salt Marsh Studio, on Whitemarsh Island, GA.  The honest truth for artists is that we paint so many paintings in a moth, year, over the years, that we inevitably have some paintings returned.  These are some of those pieces that have been sent to galleries on consignment, but for whatever reason, did not sell.  

We just recently held a Holiday Open House.  These pieces are a selection of what I have hanging for it.  If you're in the area of Savannah, GA be sure to drop us a note to make an appointment to stop in to view the work on hand, and to say 'Hi'.  You can email me at marc@marchansonart.com.

Thanks for taking a look...

SPRING ON THE MARSH - oil on board - 24x48 - $9500.00

This is a painting entirely painted on location with Dottie, near the Bull River, on the marsh between Wilmington Island and Tybee Island.  Gnats got us the second session, but we persisted and each painted a painting this size.  Something we want to do more often.  

ALONG THE FLAT RIVER - oil on canvas/board - 10x20 - $1900.00

I painted this while teaching a class in Michigan this past summer.  It was painted along a very shallow, narrow river called The Flat River. 

TOWARDS THE RIVER - oil on linen panel - 11x14 - $1450.00

This is a field painting, painted on a very warm but misty morning off of Battery Park, Tybee Island, GA.  Three studies were painted that morning. 

STRAWBERRY MOON DANCE - oil on canvas - 48x36 - $13,500.00

One of the many wonderful things I like about living on an island being on the beach at sunset or sunrise.  Watching full moons rising is always a unique experience.  This night that this one arose, the sky was clear except for a few pods of small clouds that seemed to be attracted to creating circle dances around the moonlight.  They were like little cloud faeries it seemed.  

CHANGE COMING - oil on canvas - 24x36 - $7,500.00

Dottie and I were doing some field painting at Battery Park, Tybee Island back in May of this year when this wall cloud came at us!  We very quickly threw everything into our paint bags and skedaddled back to the safety of my truck and then home.  We found out a short time later that this system produced a tornado that touched down on the next island west of us, Wilmington Island, and did some damage to businesses in the small commercial area there.  It's not good to mess with Mother Nature!!! 

BACK ROADS - oil on linen - 22x30 $5200.00

I have always loved the mood of the landscape when takes on other than a 'blue bird' day attitude.  Days like this, ones that are warm and hazy, might be some of my favorite to paint.  This one is painted on a piece of linen that you can't purchase anymore, a linen made by the company out of Russia called Yarka.  They made (make?) three styles, portrait smooth, rough and coarse.  It is sized with sturgeon skin glue and primed with a beautiful oil prime that takes paint beautifully.  It's always very sad when a product that you become used to, and LOVE to paint on, is no longer available.  The ensuing search for replacements begins and sometimes takes years to find, sometimes it never is.  This is one of those, another being that beautiful mouse gray Belgian Mist sanded pastel paper that was produced by Kitty Wallis... I'm still sobbing over that loss.

SOUTHERN LIGHT - oil on cradled panel - 30x40

When I began to come to the coast of Georgia to teach landscape painting I was immediately fascinated by the scrubby vegetation that lives along the coastal marshes and beaches.  Live oaks, palmettos and Spanish Moss, making up a large share of that growth.  One of those trips found us painting on Jekyll Island, near St. Simon's Island, GA, at the fishing pier on the north end of the island.  There is a bridge that crosses a tidal creek from there that carries you over to the east side of the island and the beaches there.  Since it faces the Atlantic, it takes a beating when the seas are up.  Consequently, the trees and other vegetation are always struggling to keep a foothold on solid ground.  I love that kind of landscape, both for viewing and for painting.  One morning I took walk all the way around the east beach when the light was low and warm and caught this scene on my phone. I didn't have time to paint it, so this is a result of realizing that image in the studio at a later time.  A side story, I sent it to a gallery I work with on St. Simon's, Anderson Fine Art Gallery, suing FedEx, and it was lost for weeks... not a clue as to where it went.  I has shipped it out of Tupelo, MS, where I lived at the time.  It was for a show at the gallery so I decided since it was a goner, I would paint another version of it.  At almost the same time this one arrived at the gallery, the other one showed up too!!!  Now I have two versions of this scene.  Would you like one?!?! 

SEA MOOD - acrylic on cradled panel - 23x48

This is the only Acrylic painting in this grouping.  I'd be happy to sell it, but I also love having it in my studio as a reminder of an idea realized in a way that I envisioned before starting, something that doesn't always happen.  Also, I painted it in a medium that I love, but have struggles with in every painting, every time that I use it, that keeps me from using it more often.  In this one however, those struggles dissolved, making it one that I look at frequently to remind me that it is possible to do that!