In his Maps For Loners series Marsden draws inspiration from the craftmanship of artifacts in museums such as the Pitt Rivers and the Ashmoleon. Visual languages from engravings, tapestries, jali screen and many other relics are woven into these landscapes, that are depictions of psychological spaces, often fragmented and in flux.

Ideas of impermanence are heightened by his use of paint - fragile strands of oil paint laid down in relief, the scraping back and building up of maze-like passages. The definite sense of these works being solid and objectlike is countered by an illusionistic impression of depth.

Marsden’s aim with these paintings is to depict space in a permanent state of potentiality, where everything that is fixed could at any moment twist, shatter and reform.