About Botanicus Collections
Material & technique
The Botanical collection is painted with traditional oil paint on cradled wood. The reinforced wood is a very old method and important to stabilize the painting, he reverse side is also painted to prevent any potential warping. The texture of the wood has a unique and smooth texture, allowing for details and beautiful line work methods to be painted. The artist paints in a direct impasto technique with clear brushstrokes. The technique allows the artist to be expressive, playful, explorative and showing of the artists character. The impressionist impasto artist Claude Monet and Vincent van Gogh are of great influence in the artwork of Marianne Hendriks.
About subject
The artist takes extensive time to observe and study nature. The artist intends to capture nature’s complexity and a true admiration for natures beauty and resilience. Marianne has a very naïf and playful, primitive aproach. The artworks have strong geometric forms and the artist plays with spatial and optical effects, dimensions and perspectives are manipulated. The artworks show movement rhythm and character. Symmetry and disharmony are other elements that the artist experiments and plays with. Marianne allows the process as a constant rethink of how to represent nature and its forms and our understanding of plants. To observe differently and questioning beauty and appearance.There is logic and illogic to the art work. The plants are represented in a transformative state of metamorphosis. The artist implies and suggests that there is more happening and fuses with personal experiences and reflections. Subtle referencing of the complexity of the human condition is reflected in the art work. Allowing individualism and personal response in the work to be influenced by emotions, excitement, feeling vulnerable, grief, anger, remorse, heart ache, desire, love, anxiety, failure, feeling lost, feeling unworthy, deep and profound fear, low and high moods, and being your own obstacles of thought. Showing complex, flawed and damaged plants yet with great admiration. The artist describes the process as creating in the realm of uncertainty and uncertain outcomes. The artist wants to create tension and harmony.
The artist has a diverse work history before establishing herself in the arts and has worked in diverse sectors and branches in the creative industry, from theatre, graphic design, architecture, film, events and technology industry. The artist allows herself to be informed by this. Marianne Hendriks has a long practice of drawing and it is at the core of the creative process.The collection is strongly influenced by her degree in architecture. The artworks have a technical blueprint-like appearance, capturing geometry, rhythm and structures.