June Issue 2000
Two Artists at the Moonshell Art Gallery in Hilton Head Island, SC, During June & July
A special showing of recent paintings by Carol Rothrock and Gregg Marlow welcomes summer to the Moonshell Art Gallery on Hilton Head Island, SC. The exhibit, entitled Escapes, will be on view from June 4 through July 31.
Carol Rothrock, one of the original founders of Moonshell, left the Lowcountry several years ago to fulfill a passion to paint the western landscape. The artists brings to Escapes paintings of her new environment, as well as memories of her southern home. Rothrock continues to find artistic inspiration in the azaleas, dogwood, marshes, and woodlands of her native home.
The pastel medium fosters an endless opportunity to experiment with colors for Rothrock. Exploration of the color white is evident in the large pastel piece Easter in Highland. Close observations reveals the hues and tints of every color in the spectrum to create the impression of white.
Southern Memories leads the viewer down an avenue of tradition oaks, lined with brilliant azalea red and pinks. The painting evokes feelings of nostalgia, heritage, and grandeur. Rothrock presents impressions of waterfalls, wildflowers, and other escapes inspired with her flamboyant strokes. The artists escapes into her natural surroundings and illustrates the focus, the clarity, the impressions that she absorbs there.
Rothrock competes in regional and national art shows, most recently Pastel Society of New Mexico annual Show and Pastel Society of Oregon annual Juried Show. She is a member of Excellence in the Southeastern Pastel Society and has participated in SPS juried shows for 10 years. Rothrock's work is in several galleries across the United States and has been represented by the Moonshell Art Gallery since 1990.
After a brief visit to Hilton Head Island, Gregg Marlow and his wife Alix agreed they had found a place to escape from the daily routine of everyday life. Their love of the SC coast started to influence Marlow's paintings and has become an almost exclusive subject of his work. The beaches, harbors, marshlands, and streets of SC provide endless subjects, while constantly changing coastal atmosphere inspires his palette. He feels that every time be picks up his brush he's able to escape into the world that he and his wife treasure.
Marlow enjoys painting the light effects of early morning or evening when the shadows are long, the colors are vibrant and many details begin to disappear. This can be seen dramatically in Afterglow at Lands End, where the horizon is almost a silhouette, against a brilliantly colored sky. First Light at Eighteen depicts Harbor Town's famous eighteenth hole in the soft light of early morning before the flag has been placed and time details of the scene are just beginning to appear. The golden reflections of Remembering Monet hint that the day is drawing close to an end.
Although Marlow doesn't create many paintings including the human figure, he does enjoy working on paintings of children on the beach. These paintings take him back to his youth where he spent many hours, playing on the beaches of New Jersey. Two children completing a personal vision of a sand castle can be seen in Finishing Touches or the solitary moment of one child drawing in the sand in Sand Script.
Marlow received his formal education at the Philadelphia College of Art, but feels his real education has been the variety of experiences he's been able to enjoy throughout his career. Each and every experience has helped him form his own personal vision of the world. In SC, his work is represented exclusively by Ann Light's Moonshell Art Gallery.
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