Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 12 June 2026
In many ways the process of painting felt like a pilgrimage - throwing up its challenges and yet leading me into a deeper understanding of the people behind the glass.
In many ways the process of painting felt like a pilgrimage - throwing up its challenges and yet leading me into a deeper understanding of the people behind the glass.
For a moment, the world stopped feeling closed to me. The contract with the present felt renewed. And I found myself thinking - with unusual clarity - that I will never give up on this world while places like this, and the people capable of making them, still exist within it.
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During my travels for In Pursuit of Spring - whilst I painted every day, my hands became a chromatic register of the day's findings - as well as my camera, pen and sketchbook.
There’s a quote by Pablo Neruda that illustrates how I feel: “There is another reality, the genuine one, which we lose sight of. This other reality is always sending us hints, which without art, we can’t receive.”
And perhaps most of all, it knows that I do not wish simply to observe this island, but to belong to it - to become, in however small a way, another layer in its long conversation.
And thus I have found myself in a career where attentiveness is a necessary prerequisite. In the years since I started out, something has gradually washed over me - and through me - like wine through water.
A chance to own a limited edition print of the the Sea of Steps at Wells, leading up to the Chapter House.
It began with a visit to Lastingham in October last year. Since then, there has been a growing awareness of the spirit and art of place - not only to steady us, but to generate an overwhelming sense of hope and direction.
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