Fall Awards Evening Invitation
Special Presentation * Open to the Public

November 18, 2006
Utah Valley State College
Room SC 206c
7:00 PM

Robert L. Marshall
Department of Art
Brigham Young University

Recognized nationally, for many years, as a landscape watercolorist, Robert Marshall’s present work interprets, in oils, the wetland areas of central Utah. He says of his work, "It has been my experience that there is, at times, an inverse proportional relationship between the grandiose verses the intimate. Awareness of the intrinsic beauty of a particular location is always intensified through private, rather than collective discovery. Quiet hikes into the landscape intensify our connection with the land in a way that standing on the periphery and observing the obvious can never accomplish. This celebration of the universal, through focusing on the specific, allows each spectator a momentary release from the stress and anxiety of the hectic world by providing a temporary sanctuary-a moment of peaceful regeneration".

Robert has had over 50 major solo and group exhibitions throughout the United States and Europe, and was recently honored with his first Retrospective at the Springville Museum of Art. In 1997 he was selected as the inaugural exhibition at the new civic museum in St. George, Utah. He has been recognized as a preeminent Artist/Educator and as one of the most influential landscape painters in the West.

Robert and his wife Janice moved to Springville, Utah in 1969. Robert had just accepted a faculty position in the Department of Art at Brigham Young University. While both he and his wife were raised in Southern California and had returned there to teach at Fullerton College after graduate school at Brigham Young University, relocating to Utah was a very easy choice.