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Marianne Hendriks / Born 1987 Amsterdam
Marianne Hendriks started working as an artist in 2017. The artist is a self taught artist.
Marianne Hendriks was born and raised in Amsterdam and has her current studio in central Amsterdam. Because of spending ten years in London pursuing a degree and career, she is deeply rooted in both Amsterdam and London. She has just built and enlarged her Atelier in Amsterdam and is in the process of setting up her second Atelier in England - Surrey Hills.
Marianne Hendriks completed the foundation year in Art and design at St.Martins and followed on with a BA degree in Architecture and design at St.Martins London. After graduating she has worked in the creative industry for seven years in London. Starting off as an assistant set builder and costume maker for theatre, film and events. Because of her love for storytelling, she also attended evening classes in method acting and dance. She then proceeded to work as a creative director, illustrator and graphic designer working for a diverse large client base. She worked with clients such as Liberty, Nike, Uniqlo, Dr.Martins, TFL transport, ASOS, D&AD event, SohoHouse, Guardian news paper, and Goodwood estate events.
During student years because of having very little money she practised as much as possible on pieces of decorating wall paper working with ink and chalk. Exploring through the act of drawing and painting is a crucial part of Marianne’s process and developing and testing ideas and allowing playful exploration.
Marianne has her own very distinctive approach and style and works in the tradition of fine art. She approaches traditional techniques as a contemporary artist. She treats traditions with great admiration. She operates in her own right and is incredibly focussed on realising projects that run over several years to get realised. She considers herself as much of an insider artist as an outsider artist. Marianne works independently and operates in a very self-directive path and has a clear vision of what she wants to achieve creatively.
Marianne Hendriks spends a lot of time in nature and cities, she takes long walks to be receptive to what is happening around her, finding inspiration. Something that Van.Gogh practised as part of his creative process. Marianne's ambition is to tell the story of nature. Within the chore of her work is the heritage of fine art, architectural geometric structures and patterns and optical illusion. Marianne does constant extensive research, visiting botanical gardens, gardening, visits museums, exhibitions, archives, theatres, attends lectures and reads literature to inform her work. (To read more about collections see - About pages.)
Aged thirty Marianne Hendriks stepped into the artworld with the Botanicus collection, her first collection in oil painting. The artist has had the privilege to be recognised quickly and was able to collaborate on many projects. Marianne Hendriks is part of a network of artists that are entrepreneurial, organising and operating on a very professional level. Collaborating on projects with art directors, fashion houses and architects all over the world. The largest recent project displayed at Design week in Milan and Lake Como. Marianne exhibits in Amsterdam, London and New York. Marianne’s art is published in the New York Times, Time out London, Vogue Living NL. Marianne has been awarded to be one of the best selling artists at Saatchi art, five times participated at The Other Art Fair, twice awarded as Fair favourite at The Other Art Fair and twice winner of the Kate Brayn award. Marianne also has been in depth interviewed by Phaidon Press and Art space. Recently Marianne took part in the Royal Academy London contemporary art summer intensive course to further challenge and reflect ideas in her work.
Alongside establishing her career for four years she trained at Atelier Wildschut to learn traditional oil painting techniques and to seek a deeper understanding of her heritage and to master the Dutch Golden Age. Marianne creates replica paintings of master pieces to learn and embody the techniques. She obsessively explores methods and techniques and keeps extensive log books of each painting with a historic and almost scientific approach, by testing and sampling. Marianne is fascinated by the idealist manor of painting that the Renaissance masters and Dutch masters applied. The art has a sense of mystery because of often lost meaning and secret lost techniques and yet the artist describes the art as incredibly powerful and captivating. There is an element of ceremony and theatre involved that makes it magical. Marianne uses the techniques and methods in her work and allows herself to use the techniques in her own way. Marianne has practised and has enjoyed drawing from a young age and continues to draw on a daily basis in sketchbooks.
Marianne Hendriks works in fine art quality standards. All materials in the atelier are responsibly sourced and archival and acid free, plastic free, chemical free and recyclable. The frames and crates are bespoke made in the artists workshop. Marianne collaborates with the renowned digital print House Re-Art to insure the highest quality in digital imaging for licence agreements and the highest quality in limited editions. Based Amsterdam / London.