Kye Marshall, professional cellist and composer, has been taking photographs for many years. Mainly self-taught through experimentation and study, she recently attended Freeman Patterson’s summer 2007 workshop. Her photographs have been used on the cover of three of her CDs and she has had photos featured in Affordable Art show, Praxis Gallery (Toronto 2007 , a Group Exhibition at G+ Galleries (Toronto 2007) and Third International Miniature Photography Group Exhibition, Praxis Gallery (2008) and will be featured in upcoming show with Linda Briskin (Symbolic Ambiguities) at G+ Galleries (Toronto) May 13- 25, 2008.

Artist Statement

Kye Marshall brings to her photography her experience and discipline as a professional musician (composer and experimental cellist), and as a music psychotherapist. Her compositional skills using colour, rhythm, line and form influence her photographs. She plays with elements such as visual figure/ground as they relate to the musical soloist/accompaniment.

As Blake said, "Nature is imagination itself". Marshall believes that the outer world is in many ways a projection of our inner world. Photography is a way of exploring personal issues, of expanding both our inner and outer worlds by using our imaginations to explore and re-invent ways of seeing and being in the world.
For Marshall, Nature is both the subject and inspiration for her work .In this photographic series Marshall presents trees in reflections and through mist. Our normal experience of trees is as rooted firmly in the earth. Here the trees are presented in dreamlike fashion, more as a metaphors for the unconscious than as a representation of reality.

View Kye Marshall's work in the "Call of the Wild" Canadian Wilderness Art Show April/May, 2008.

Updated:5/11/2008 Copyright 2007 Tay River Gallery