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EQUESTRIAN ARTISTS
JENNIFER AND RON MARSHALL
Becoming famous for their beautiful Australian Light Horse paintings.We are a husband and wife team who were painting similar subjects ... Australian history, horse art and landscapes ... long before we met.
Having similar interests, we are in the delightful position of working together researching, designing, painting our artworks using oil paints and sometimes pastel.Then reproducing these beautiful Light Horse Horse art paintings as high quality giclee fine art prints on canvas.
We hope that you enjoy the wonderful stories of the Australian Light Horse that these equestrian paintings portray.
Jennifer Marshall | Ron Marshall
Biography
Ron Marshall, an Australian traditional, realist artist of considerable skill, was born in 1938 and grew up in Sydney. Because of his artistic skills he began his sign writers apprenticeship at the age of 14 years and 10 months.
Ron was always experimenting to find new and better ways to achieve the results he sought, and some of his discoveries soon became normal practice in the trade. Ron was much respected in the sign trade for his high standard of workmanship and artistic skills.
It wasn't long before Ron turned his attention to fine art. He associated or painted with such well-known traditional landscape artists as Doug Sealy, Les Graham and Robert Wilson.
He earned the nickname of "Rainmaker" because it always seemed to rain whenever he came with them on a camping trip on which they intended to paint on site.
Ron was fascinated by the techniques of the Old Masters, such as Rubens and Rembrandt, and studied their methods, used the same materials, and experimented with their techniques. During this stage he produced numerous copies of these masterpieces.
He continued in the sign writing trade for over 40 years until retiring for health reasons in 1995 when he moved to Mackay, Queensland and began thinking about doing some serious painting. He met Jennifer Jowett in a local gallery, together the won the Mackay Airport Mural Competition in 1996, and were married in 2000. Since then they have combined their interest in local Australian history, landscape and horses in their Mount Britton Collection of paintings. In 2006 they and moved to the southern Queensland town of Warwick.Now Ron uses what he calls the "Mixed Technique", using acrylics, alkyds and oils. To this day he is still experimenting with paint in order to achieve the effects he wants.
Ron, has combined his interest in horses and Australian Military heritage and is currently working on a series of "The Australian Light Horse". Fine Art Prints of one of his paintings "The Charge" have found their way to... USA Cavalry Museum at Little Bighorn, USA; Australian Light Horse Museum at Beer Sheba, Israel;
Art Awards
Ron has never kept record of his exhibitions or awards before his alliance with Jennifer, however he did have a sell-out exhibition of his landscapes at Kirrabilli in the 1970's, and has sold paintings to the Australian Prime Ministers Department. He is not keen on enteringcompetitions but has recently shown locally.2009- Warwick Show -First Prize Landscape2008- Warwick Show -Second Prize -Landscape2007 Warwick Art Group Exhibition- Peoples Popular Choice2006 Warwick Art Prize - Commended
RON MARSHALL
RON MARSHALL
JENNIFER MARSHALL
JENNIFER MARSHALL
Exhibitions
(Joint Exhibitions as Jennifer Marshall with Ron Marshall)2007 Warwick Regional Art Gallery, Warwick - "Hoofbeats, History, Waves & Wilderness" 2007 Mudgeeraba Military Tatoo & Light Horse Tournament- “The Australian Light Horse" 2007 Queensland Mounted Infantry Historical Troop 20th Anniversary, Gaythorne RSL - "The Australian Light Horse"2006 Monto Light Horse Reunion & Re-enactment, Monto Showground- "The Australian Light Horse"2005 Old Town Hall, Mackay- " Hoofbeats, History, Waves & Wilderness"2005 Monto Light Horse Memorial Reunion & Re-enactment, Monto Showground "Australian Horses"2003 Nebo Shire Museum Courthouse Gallery- "The Mount Britton Collection(Exhibitions as Jennifer Jowett)1995- Entertainment Centre Mackay-joint exhibition with Fabian Micali1994- Entertainment Centre Mackay1989- Spirals Gallery, Rockhampton
Tutoring
2009-June Children's Class, Warwick Art group2009- March/April -Tutor of Drawing/Pastel Class, Wawick Art Group Inc 2009-January- Tutor- Children's Class, Warwick Art Group Inc1995- Tutor of Pastel/Painting Class James Cook University Mackay campus 1994- Tutor of Pastel, Acrylic Classes, James Cook University, Mackay campus. 1989- Tutor Pastel Workshop Pioneer Valley Art Group
Memberships
2006-2008 Warwick Art Group Inc.,2006-2009 Warick Art Gallery member and volunteer 2008-2009 Warwick Art Gallery Committee member 1993-1996 Pastel Society of Australia, Master Pastellist 1989-1996 Mackay Art Society.2007-2010 Equine Art Guild
RefereesDawn Marriage- President of Warwick Art Group Inc.Karina Devine- Director of Warwick Art Gallery
Artist's Statement
My first love was horses, and I studied them and drew them from a very early age, and so my skills of observation, and drawing began to be developed, and have grown with having horses of my own.A deep love of the Australian bush where I grew up, soon manifested itself in my landscapes.Later a fascination with our unique Australian history has combined with the love of the bush, horses and the country way of life, and developed into forays into painting aspects of that history.Meeting and later marrying Ron Marshall, a fellow artist who had similar interests, means that we are in the delightful position of being able to work together on our painting projects, sharing our passion for history and nature, and exploring techniques to better express this in our paintings.
Biography
Jennifer grew up in the country where she developed a great love and appreciation of the Australian bush and rural life, and started her education at Upper Burringbar Public School, a 1-2 teacher school in Northern NSW and it was here that her talent was first recognised and she sold her first drawings and paintings.
She attended Murwillumbah High School and was within the top 10 art students in the 1973 NSW Higher School Certificate, but chose to do a Dip.Ed. in General Primary Teaching at Northern Rivers College of Advanced Education in Lismore, (now the Southern Cross University) rather than go to Art School in Sydney. During this time Jennifer began selling works in local galleries under her maiden name of Jowett.
From 1977 until 1987 Jennifer lived in several different central NSW locations, exhibiting her work in local galleries and country NSW exhibitions, winning numerous awards, including many Peoples Popular Choice Awards.
From 1988 until 2006 Jennifer lived in the Mackay region, again exhibiting locally and winning many awards including Open, Representational, Traditional, Pastel, Portrait, and Peoples Popular Choice Awards.
In 1993 Jennifer was accepted as a "Master Pastellist" by the Pastel Society of Australia,In 1994 and 1995 she tutored pastel classes at James Cook University's Mackay Campus.
In 2000 Jennifer married fellow artist Ron Marshall with whom she had won the Mackay Airport Mural Competition in 1996. (These murals now hang at Mackay Tourism Information Centre.) From then she painted under her married name of Jennifer Marshall. Ron and Jennifer had been painting similar subjects ... early Australian history, landscapes, seascapes and working horses. Together they have embarked on a series of historical paintings about an old gold mining town called the "Mount Britton Collection", and a series of paintings about "The Australian Light Horse". Jennifer also paints portraits... of horses, dogs and people. Jennifer has worked in soft pastels and also acrylic, but more recently uses alkyd oils. She and Ron reproduce high quality giclee prints of many of their original works.
In 2006 Ron and Jennifer sold their home in Mackay and moved to the "Rose and Rodeo Capitalof Queensland", the lovely historic, country town of Warwick, where they have set up their studio, and become involved with the local art community.
Awards
2009- Ex Arte Equinus-International Equestrian Art Competition- 3rd Place2009- Horses in Art- First prize front cover competition2009- Warwick Show-Champion of Show, First Prize Fauna/Flora2008- Warwick Show- First Prize-Drawing, First Prize-Native Fauna/Flora2007- Ex Arte Equinus- International Equine Art Exhibition -Painting 3rd place, Drawing 5th place2007- Queensland Festival of the Horse, Gold Edition Equine Art Prize- Popular Choice Award 2006- Warwick Art Prize - Hangers Award2005- Airlie Beach Maritime Exhibition - Commended2002- Highlands to the Islands exhibition run by Milton House Gallery, Mackay - 2nd Prize 2001- Wallace & Wallace Portrait Prize run by Milton House Gallery, Mackay 1st Prize 1989-1996 I exhibited in exhibitions in the Mackay area of Queensland and won many Peoples Popular Choice, Traditional, Pastel and Open Awards, including...1996- Mackay Airport Mural Competition- Winning Award with Ron Marshall1996- Pioneer Valley Arts Exhibition- Major Open Award1996- Sarina Visual Arts Competition - Major Open Award1995-Pioneer Valley Arts Exhibition-Traditional Award, & Peoples Popular Choice Award.1994- Sarina Visual Arts Competition - Open Award1993- Sarina Visual Arts Competition -Traditional Landscape Award 1991- Mackay Artists & Art Competition - Peoples Popular Choice Award1990- Pioneer Valley Art Exhibition -Peoples Popular Choice1990- Mackay Artists & Art Competition, - Peoples Popular Choice Award1979-1989 I won many awards, and Peoples Popular Choice prizes in country NSW exhibitions,although my memory is too hazy to be at all accurate.1989- Pioneer Valley Art Exhibition -Peoples Popular Choice1989- Mackay Artists & Art Competition, - Peoples Popular Choice Award1985- Singleton -Peoples Popular Choice1979- Cowra Art Exhibition -Very Very Very Very Highly Commended, & Peoples Popular Choice 1979- Lyndhurst - Traditional Award
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