Shawn Marshall
Shawn Marshall is a Kentucky-based mixed media artist and art educator whose artistic practice focuses on the natural world, with a specific interest in how we shape it and how we are shaped by it. Through different approaches, both abstract and representational, she explores our connection to, and impact on the natural environment and its universal meanings. When working abstractly, Marshall explores the human impact on the environment through an overhead lens, viewed like unearthed cities, abandoned buildings, garden ruins, gritty sidewalks, empty billboards, etc.
She says: “As humans impose their sense of order, information, and structure, so in time it fades and wears away. Rather than it clearing away older remnants, they are often covered with new structures and information. What remains is a collection and layers of human-made impositions. Within the amalgamation of ruins, a new composition and order emerges leaving a sense of wonder and hope for the future.”
