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About Marike
I am a Bellville based artist with no formal art training, and have been painting since 2007.
My work is nostalgic, sentimental, anything from portraits to still lifes to conceptual work. I express myself with bright emphasised key colours and i love to use outlines and flat backgrounds as design elements. these outlines and flat backgrounds are my favourite part of the painting to do, but without a strong detailed object in the foreground, there is nothing to create the negative space and outline, so in a way the object I paint exists to emphasise the clean background, and vice versa.
I believe there is a place for 'art for the sake of art' as well as conceptual work, the one is no greater than the other, and I tend to bounce between the two, while I work on a conceptual work i look forward to my next still life.
I also believe there is a sense of joy captured in my work, something positive that comes through in my use of red paint, hard brush strokes or simply the way in which I beautify objects I paint. I have a great passion for art, I cannot hold it back, I couldnt stop painting if i was forced, it is my love and my gift and I only hope to share it.
Price Range
US$94-1,074
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Exhibitions
January 2008 - the Demise of innocence in children' a Solo Exhibition at the Rust-en-Vrede Gallery
since then various group exhibitions at Offthewall Contemporary, iArt, Lindy van Niekerk Gallery, and commission work.
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