Dale Marsh was born in Queensland in 1940. At the age of nine he won a scholarship to study painting under the noted artist Vida Lahey at the Queensland National Gallery. “Vida taught us to closely look at the paintings, see the colours working together in harmony and ask ourselves what the artist was trying to say when he painted. We looked, wondered and eventually understood, each in his own way, the works of Gruner, Streeton, Condor, McCubbin, Hilder, Withers, Dobell and other great Australian painters.”

From 1956-1961 he studied at Brisbane Technical College and later completed a Certificate of Art at RMIT. He took up full time painting in 1972 and since then has had many solo exhibitions in Australia and Europe.

Each of Dale’s paintings reflects his concern with the subject, “…the joy and poetry of putting together the elements of form, tone, texture and colour in paint. The right technique and the right colours are always there when I want them, they arise by themselves appropriate to the problem at hand. I spend a lot of time visualising the finished painting on the white canvas. When I can see it down to the last detail, I am ready to begin painting. What I do is try to capture the essence of the energy in a painting through form and colour, and I suppose technique. Light and drawing is everything in a painting. Other than that, I try to concentrate on achieving a fluid style with paint.”

His work is held within a number of public collections in Australia and overseas: Queensland Art Gallery, ANZ Bank, Queen Elizabeth II collection, Princess Alexandra’s collection, Sano Collection (Japan), Latrobe Valley Art Gallery, Australian War Memorial, and in private collections throughout Australia, New Zealand, USA, UK, Europe, Malaysia, Hong Kong and Japan.