Description
Maartje Frenken (st-Michielsgestel 1961):
“The connection with the beautiful, all-encompassing nature, the light, the flowers and plants is what fascinates me. I stand in the light and look closely at the plants and flowers, I squat and see the white, pink and yellow flowers in the backlight. The flowers speak for themselves in all their universal fragility.
My work is dreamy, playful and involved with all that blooms and grows and eventually withers and decays. I capture this with oil paint in muted colours, flowing and transparent, delicate and rarefied. Thinly painted, if not skimpy in material use. The skin of the canvas dimly shimmers through it. I am a sober colourist, like the symbolist Odilon Redon, with whom my work has associations. I like to speak through my paintings about emotions and concentration about what is of real value.”
Portrait: Ruud Balk
Below you will find a selection of the paintings by Maartje Frenken in our collection. If you would like to receive more information about the artist and all works in our collection, please contact Pim Hoff.
Maartje Frenken
‘Ranonkels’
Oil on canvas, undated
50 x 40 cm
SOLD
Maartje Frenken
‘She kissed me’
Oil on canvas, undated
150 x 120 cm
€ 4.600,00
Maartje Frenken
‘The inner child’
Oil on canvas and collage, undated
110 x 65 cm
€ 3.000,00
Maartje Frenken
‘To let myself go’
Oil on canvas, undated
150 x 120 cm
€ 4.600,00
Maartje Frenken
‘Liesje’
Oil on canvas, undated
50 x 45 cm
€ 1.600,00
Maartje Frenken
‘Ze zullen denken dat we engelen zijn’
Oil on canvas, undated
150 x 60 cm
€ 3.600,00
Maartje Frenken
‘Ask the flowers’
Oil on canvas, undated
150 x 120 cm
€ 4.500,00
Maartje Frenken
‘Kom tevoorschijn, kom’
Oil on canvas, undated
100 x 90 cm
€ 3.250,00
Maartje Frenken
‘I’m always with you’
Oil on canvas, undated
160 x 90 cm
€ 3.600,00
The work of Toon Laurense and Maartje Frenken can now be seen in the exhibition ‘WITH YOU’ (31st of July until the 3rd of October 2021) in our gallery.
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