Pin-up girls from the 50s, mythological beauties and contemporary female celebs - they all come together in this promising young artist’s work. Kate Marshall’s paintings are suffocated by pink and lilac tones that alternate between sickeningly sweet feminine colours and shades that verge on an empty bleak grey wash. These art pieces are removed from any surrounding environment, fuelling the awareness of the organic lines that capture the contours of the body; their fluidity in brash contrast to the unproblematic occurrence of vertical drips, concentrating the pigment.

The strange variations in composition often verge on the snapshot image. Despite there conventional…

Pin-up girls from the 50s, mythological beauties and contemporary female celebs - they all come together in this promising young artist’s work. Kate Marshall’s paintings are suffocated by pink and lilac tones that alternate between sickeningly sweet feminine colours and shades that verge on an empty bleak grey wash. These art pieces are removed from any surrounding environment, fuelling the awareness of the organic lines that capture the contours of the body; their fluidity in brash contrast to the unproblematic occurrence of vertical drips, concentrating the pigment.

The strange variations in composition often verge on the snapshot image. Despite there conventional imagery, the work seems somewhat informal, the characters relaxed and caught off guard, yet still somewhat ambiguous help in the formation of a fractured narrative that suggests a strangely erotic note. Romantic reclining nudes, feisty attractive young women and well groomed stars, sometimes looking back, and other times too involved in their activities that we unwarily are places at a voyeurs perspective. Instantly appealing and conceptually intriguing it is not only the women in Kate Marshall’s paintings that are highly desirable.

Marshall Graduated from Goldsmiths College in 2004 with a BA Fine Art and Art History. She has showed in various national exhibitions including ‘Recent Graduates at the Affordable Art Fair’ in London in 2004, and group shows in 2005 at ‘Wills Art Warehouse’ and ‘Studio 44 Hackney’.