Terrain (detail)

Edie Marshall is a Saskatchewan-based painter who uses her artwork to look at the prairie landscape and environment. Edie’s recent work centers on photos of the prairie terrain taken during a road trip.

Terrain (detail), oil on paper mounted on panel

I really like the impressionistic style that Edie uses in her paintings. I find it works particularly well in her recent Terrain series. For these works, the artist took 1,500 photos on a road trip through desert areas of the United States, many taken from the window of a car. For the art project, Edie used these photos as reference images for 1,000 tiny paintings. Arranged as a grid, each set of paintings offers a flowing selection of landscape, giving the viewer a narrative impression of a trip through that particular environment.

The front page of Edie's website

Edie’s Articulated Places series is a similarly cohesive selection of environmental snapshots. Each painting showcases a close-up of prairie grassland. The technique that Edie uses creates an almost abstract appearance, with a range of deep green tones expressed in elongated brush strokes.

Grass #8: Grasslands National Park West Block, oil on terra skin paper