Artist Bio
Immediately after Secondary School, she took various painting and painting sculpture lessons, followed for several years by painting lessons in the Stedelijk Museum with the painter Peter Schenk.
She also followed and completed the evening academy at the “Kleine Academie” in Amsterdam, lined up at the Rietveld Academy. Marianne also followed a teacher training in drawing and textiles. At that time she gave lessons at a school in Amsterdam.
She initially worked with various materials such as oil paint, pastel, watercolor, gouache, etc. The last few years mainly with acrylics. She works from her own studio.
Marianne also makes and paints objects. She regularly works on assignments and exhibits at home and abroad, in both galleries and museums. She has won several prizes, both nationally and internationally. Marianne is a member of the VAK.
Marianne signs her work under the name MARFEL