E Marshall lives and works in New Orleans, Louisiana. E’s work skips across many mediums and materials. Currently they are producing large drawings and paintings on paper. The joy of making marks is the driving force behind E’s work and it surfs on the boundary between memory and identity as it relates to the physical, drawn surface.

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I always like having a little personal gallery of things for encouragement and reminders. Sometimes if things hang up there long enough they start making idea babies.

Here is a little tour around my bulletin board. It’s been a crazy month. I have been in my studio so much the last few months and the detritus, false starts, shelved ideas and kernels are piling up.

My first love is sewing. I go through waves of working with different materials, but I always come back to stitching scraps together. I have quite a collection, not sure what to do with it…

This is an image I pieced together from a racing photo. Implied Horse.

Horse cutouts that I use to draw with and trace. Flattening the steed and making it a reusable shape. It is about the idea of the horse, not necessarily individual horses. A postcard from where I grew up (the first town on the Mississippi river) A thrown horseshoe from a visit to the stables at the race track and some tiny pictures of a loved one in cowboy boots.

A quick drawing of a queen palm and some dog’s rawhide bone I stretched out and painted with gloss medium.

An update on a piece I introduced in the last post... I’m calling it “Pressure” at the moment. This is an outline of my head. it doesn't really feel like it belongs to me anymore. I have been going through a lot of ups and downs with it. I know it is part of my process. I never like what I am making the whole time I am making it. I have to trust that I will find some resolution and work through the awkward, ugly duck patches.