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AUG 2017

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128 LOUISVILLE MAGAZINE 8.17 ARTS COVER STORY SHOT STUDIO Photo by Jessica Ebelhar Bendigo Fletcher Bendigo Fletcher, Louisville's latest folk-rock group, was born out of a "costume party for a few existing song skeletons," says Ryan Anderson, the Louisville group's lead vocalist and songwriter. "I aimed to assemble a group of friends to bring some rhythm and life to the relatively bare- bones tunes." He recruited four friends from across the Midwest to create a folk- driven sound that melds psychedelia, soulful pop and touches of heavier rock. Recorded over the course of three days at Trackside Studios in Huntington, West Virginia, the self-titled EP came out in May. "Originally, it was titled Forager," Anderson says. "For us, we were simply foraging sound that was worth sharing with the world." The cover of the EP features an Instagram photo from the band's bassist, Josh Harshbarger. "Our very good pal, Jenni, can be seen foraging for mushrooms in the Jefferson Memorial Forest. When I look at the photo, it really makes me wonder who that person is and what in the world they're doing in the middle of the woods," Anderson says. "Hopefully the music makes people feel the same way." — Kaঞe Molck Even on a cloudy day, Shawn Marshall's downtown Louisville studio is filled with light, with three tall windows looking out over the Ohio River. A colorful array of her paintings hangs on the walls, and the tables are scattered with tubes of oil paint. At her easel, Marshall uses a palette knife to apply thick layers of paint to the canvas, creating an abstract, textured landscape of blue sky, wetlands and grassy scenery. She calls the painting Marshland. "It's a more three-dimensional way of painting," says Marshall, whose interest in landscapes stems from a childhood living and traveling overseas in countries like Cyprus, Lebanon and Germany. The 49-year-old didn't start out as a painter. For 20 years she studied and worked as an architect. But she'd minored in fine arts while in graduate school for architecture at Cornell University. She knew she wanted to be an artist but didn't pursue it until about eight years ago, when she left architecture to study teaching at Bellarmine University. "Architecture was a great education, but it was never my passion," Marshall says. "It was much too constrictive for me." She's now a visual- arts teacher at North Oldham High School and an assistant director of PYRO Gallery on East Market Street. This summer, she moved her main workspace from the basement of her East End home to a studio on West Main Street. (This month, see her work in a solo show at the Downtown Pilates Studio in Butchertown and in a group show at PYRO.) Painting is like meditation or yoga for Marshall — it doesn't require the precision of architecture. She'll start with a horizon, colors and an idea, and she'll just let the painting happen. If she makes a mistake, she has learned to just keep going. "I see it as a practice in being in the moment," she says. — Brooke McAfee

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