1 Oct - 31 Dec 2025
Concept
Trip takes you to another world. Huge images of intricate sculptures smaller than your little finger, vanishing in less time than it takes you to blink.
Every artwork is unique, signed and float-mounted in a bespoke frame, embellished with gold, blood, paint and sparkling diamonds.
Extraordinary images created from photographs, no AI.
10% of profits from the show will be donated to Save the Children Fund.
Max Marshall Studio
Grove House, 27 Hammersmith Grove, London W6 0NE
Oct 1 - Dec 31 2025
How these images were made
Water is a fantastic subject for a photographer as water is a lens. Our eyes are mainly water. Water will pick up all the colours and shapes around it.
My art takes you to another world. Trip exists within tiny intervals of space and time beyond the experience of humans. A water collision resembles an explosion or under different circumstances a solid glass vessel.
Water is colourless. To add colour, some photographers use dyes but that means they lose water's natural sparkle and lensing effects. With pure white light, random tones from the room are picked up, which doesn't look attractive.
I found using coloured lights, mainly blue tones, worked best. The first four pictures below are close in terms of colour to the original. Subsequent pictures were created by swapping the blue tones for other colours in Photoshop.
Five powerful studio lights illuminated the subject for around 1/50,000 second and the lights were carefully positioned to create different effects. 1/50,000 second is an unimaginably brief duration – blinking your eye takes 10,000 times longer. Electronically controlled water pumps enabled the size and intervals between the drops to be controlled precisely.
This is the first art show using these techniques printed at high resolution and huge scale.
Spike
2025
Archival pigment print with sparkling diamonds, float-mounted in a white box frame
Unique print signed in pencil.
Image H 920mm x W 690mm
Frame H 1245mm x W 995mm x D 45mm
Crown & Bubble
2025
Archival pigment print, float-mounted in a white box frame
Unique print signed in pencil.
Image H 900mm x W 600mm
Frame H 1245mm x W 995mm x D 45mm
Eternity
2025
Archival pigment print, float-mounted in a white box frame with light blue surround
Unique print signed in pencil.
Image H 920mm x W 690mm
Frame H 1245mm x W 995mm x D 45mm
UFO
2025
Archival pigment print, float-mounted in a white box frame
Unique print signed in pencil.
Image H 600mm x W 900mm
Frame H 995mm x W 1245mm x D 45mm
Trip
2025
Archival pigment print with sparkling diamonds, float-mounted in a white box frame with day-glo inner frame
Unique print signed in day-glo highlighter.
Image H 920mm x W 690mm
Frame H 1245mm x W 995mm x D 45mm
Serenity
2025
Archival pigment print, float-mounted in a white box frame
Unique print signed in pencil.
Image H 920mm x W 690mm
Frame H 1245mm x W 995mm x D 45mm
Lost Forensic
2025
Archival pigment print, float-mounted in a white box frame with deep red inner surround
Unique print signed in blood.
Image H 600mm x W 900mm
Frame H 995mm x W 1245mm x D 45mm
Dazzle
2025
Archival pigment print with sparkling diamonds, inner frame 24-carat gold. Float-mounted in a white box frame
Unique print signed in pencil.
Image H 920mm x W 690mm
Frame H 1245mm x W 995mm x D 45mm
Bloody Mary
2025
Archival pigment print, float-mounted within a white box frame
Unique print signed in red pencil
Image H 690mm x W 920mm
Frame H 995mm x W 1245mm x D 45mm
Absinthe
2025
Archival pigment print, float-mounted within a white box frame with green inner surround
Unique print signed in green pencil
Image H 690mm x W 920mm
Frame H 995mm x W 1245mm x D 45mm
Sashay
2025
Archival pigment print with sparkling diamonds, float-mounted in a white box frame
Unique print signed in pencil.
Image H 920mm x W 690mm
Frame H 1245mm x W 995mm x D 45mm
Firecracker
2025
Archival pigment print with sparkling diamonds, float-mounted in a white box frame
Unique print signed in pencil.
Image H 920mm x W 690mm
Frame H 1245mm x W 995mm x D 45mm