Marsha Hammel Hand Numbered Limited Edition Giclee: "Fever"
Artist: Marsha Hammel
Title: Fever
Paper Size: 44"w x 30"h
Image Size: 40"w x 26"h
Medium / Edition : Giclee / 100 copies.
About this Piece: This Gouttelette Limited Edition print has been published with light-fast inks to BS1006 standard onto acid-free, calcium carbonate-buffered stock, mould-made from 100% cotton and sourced from environmentally-conscious paper suppliers.Marsha Hammel comments: Jazz has always had an anti-establishment perspective. That the form has been absorbed into society today does not mean that it is not still at the edge of creativity. A new generation of players has claimed it as their own and they are enhancing and expanding the body of work. I do not make paintings of Famous Jazz Musicians. Instead I dedicate my work to the thousands of players who give their lives to Music, for no fame and very little money. It is they who are the heart and blood of this remarkable art form. Very often the exuberant energy of the music allows us to rise above a greatly troubled mind. I cannot listen to the news and not be affected by the terrible events around the world. So, as I made this painting, I began with black. Black is the symbol of mourning and darkness of mind. Black ground is behind the bright colour and joyful movement of the figures. The brushstrokes are aggressive, expressionist. The energy of the stroke carries out the detail of the forms. Yes, in troubled times, art and music can give us relief from the worlds worries.
About the Artist: Born in Florida in 1949, Marsha Hammel has lived in Panama, Italy, Germany and Canada. She has travelled the United States extensively, spending time in the west and north-east as well as in the sunbelt cities of Richmond and New Orleans. Since 1980 she has enjoyed artistic success and inspiration living and working in the southern part of the United States
Marsha Hammel was awarded a scholarship for art in 1967 to the North Carolina Governor's School and between 1968 and 1971 attended the Virginia Commonwealth University, studying in the Fine Arts Department. Her paintings have been selected by musicians and performing art centres to appear on programme covers and as cover art for music. She has been awarded the Outstanding Achievement Award for Visual Artists of 1992 by the Temple Emanuel and has been commissioned by a Florida ballet company to create art for inclusion in their collection. She has had countless prestigious solo exhibitions, and her work appears in many corporate and private collections.
Marsha Hammel's women have been described as "romantic but not idealised, beautiful but not pampered, private but accessible, strong, confident and independent"by an enthusiastic reviewer.
With a strong market for her original paintings, pen and ink drawings and fine art prints, Marsha Hammel is one of the best-known and most successful artists of atmospheric music scenes and general Hispanic life in the world.
About her work, the artist says:
"The work of my career since the late seventies has been a monument to musicians; inspired by those I knew in New Orleans and whom I meet all the time in little clubs in every city I visit. These are artists who seldom reach fame and fortune but who devote themselves to their art form, Jazz. It is an ongoing project.
Original art is always about much more than image or color, which can be reproduced in a print...there is something "living"about an original piece ... something of the artist's energy stays with it...even work hundreds of years old...When I go to museums and stand before the work of my masters (Modigliani, Matisse, Picasso) I can see them working and listen to their teaching...its always inspiring.
If my work can bring a smile, a warmth, a bit of joy; if it can radiate just a little of the energy of my subject, then I am gratified."
Title: Fever
Paper Size: 44"w x 30"h
Image Size: 40"w x 26"h
Medium / Edition : Giclee / 100 copies.
About this Piece: This Gouttelette Limited Edition print has been published with light-fast inks to BS1006 standard onto acid-free, calcium carbonate-buffered stock, mould-made from 100% cotton and sourced from environmentally-conscious paper suppliers.Marsha Hammel comments: Jazz has always had an anti-establishment perspective. That the form has been absorbed into society today does not mean that it is not still at the edge of creativity. A new generation of players has claimed it as their own and they are enhancing and expanding the body of work. I do not make paintings of Famous Jazz Musicians. Instead I dedicate my work to the thousands of players who give their lives to Music, for no fame and very little money. It is they who are the heart and blood of this remarkable art form. Very often the exuberant energy of the music allows us to rise above a greatly troubled mind. I cannot listen to the news and not be affected by the terrible events around the world. So, as I made this painting, I began with black. Black is the symbol of mourning and darkness of mind. Black ground is behind the bright colour and joyful movement of the figures. The brushstrokes are aggressive, expressionist. The energy of the stroke carries out the detail of the forms. Yes, in troubled times, art and music can give us relief from the worlds worries.
About the Artist: Born in Florida in 1949, Marsha Hammel has lived in Panama, Italy, Germany and Canada. She has travelled the United States extensively, spending time in the west and north-east as well as in the sunbelt cities of Richmond and New Orleans. Since 1980 she has enjoyed artistic success and inspiration living and working in the southern part of the United States
Marsha Hammel was awarded a scholarship for art in 1967 to the North Carolina Governor's School and between 1968 and 1971 attended the Virginia Commonwealth University, studying in the Fine Arts Department. Her paintings have been selected by musicians and performing art centres to appear on programme covers and as cover art for music. She has been awarded the Outstanding Achievement Award for Visual Artists of 1992 by the Temple Emanuel and has been commissioned by a Florida ballet company to create art for inclusion in their collection. She has had countless prestigious solo exhibitions, and her work appears in many corporate and private collections.
Marsha Hammel's women have been described as "romantic but not idealised, beautiful but not pampered, private but accessible, strong, confident and independent"by an enthusiastic reviewer.
With a strong market for her original paintings, pen and ink drawings and fine art prints, Marsha Hammel is one of the best-known and most successful artists of atmospheric music scenes and general Hispanic life in the world.
About her work, the artist says:
"The work of my career since the late seventies has been a monument to musicians; inspired by those I knew in New Orleans and whom I meet all the time in little clubs in every city I visit. These are artists who seldom reach fame and fortune but who devote themselves to their art form, Jazz. It is an ongoing project.
Original art is always about much more than image or color, which can be reproduced in a print...there is something "living"about an original piece ... something of the artist's energy stays with it...even work hundreds of years old...When I go to museums and stand before the work of my masters (Modigliani, Matisse, Picasso) I can see them working and listen to their teaching...its always inspiring.
If my work can bring a smile, a warmth, a bit of joy; if it can radiate just a little of the energy of my subject, then I am gratified."
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