About Journal Collection
Created with high end materials on Arches archival cotton paper and a mix of mediums of pencil, ink, aquarel (watercolour) and gouache. Guaranteeing longevity and quality. The premise of the collection is for the artist to explore different ideas, experiment freely outside of a definite collection.
The work is not meant to be coherent and the work is intended to be evolving and reflective and serves also as study. The artist's intention is to create work that is personal with a diary-like perspective. Expression of individualism is really important to the artist, there needs to be space to express this with perhaps a lesser commercial intent. To explore different ways of seeing the world. It is important to the artist to maintain creative freedom, to develop herself and allow her to change directions. The way the tools and mediums are used by the artists is dependent on experience in both craft and life and personal values. The artist sees this as a very important part of the artist's practice and intends to continue the drawing series. There is also a great curiosity of testing and for the sake of exploring and not knowing what the outcome will be.
Experimental work by artists is often kept private and is not encouraged by galleries because it is harder to sell. The learning and education aspect is incredible to the artist. Marianne Hendriks finds it important to further challenge and evolve not only just as an artist on a personal aspect but also in the context of our heritage and culture, and chooses therefore to share and make the work available.
All images are catalogued and registered in the artists atelier ledger.
About Lockdown Collection
The Lockdown Collection is created on archival natural cotton paper, the artist uses several different mediums, pencil, ink, gouache, pencil and watercolour. The artist depicts intimate small moments in the artist’s studio. The artist wants to reflect the time she is alone and cut off from the outer world and suddenly finds herself in a very isolated place and faces loneliness with a lot of change. The artist describes the lockdown as a great shift that happened by force, where situations, certainty and safety are all in the balance. A time of grief and a time where suddenly everything certain is linked with a question mark. Preconceived ideas and opinions shifted and people changed. The artist was surrounded by medics and was aware of what unknown monster we were facing as a society. The artist is aware that portraying this is virtually an impossible task to achieve, with this in mind however the artist wants to reflect this time.
The artist has taken the subject from direct intimate surroundings and reflected on objects that appear timeless and irrelevant and made them into the main theme of the work. The shapes and colours are simple and appear in a naif surrealistic manor with questionable perspective and scale. The colours are skewed and over or under saturated. The paintings have frozen actions and movements, captured motions as if they had never moved in the first place. The actions portrayed are floating, folding, flying, drifting and unwanted. The hidden character is the oak wood that is watching everything without being noticed.
The subjects represent impermanence , such as fruits, flies, wood and skies are portrayed. Each element and subject are represented throughout art history, the artist’s choice in this is very deliberate. The artwork is in a dream state / a state of consciousness, also named D-State or REM-State. The subject matter might appear insignificant and not worth portraying. Yet at the time that was all that the artists were surrounded by, whilst everything else was suddenly very far away and unimportant.