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M A R J A N   G R O E N E V E L D f r o m  3 D  t o  2 D

P A I N T I N G S  A N D  D R A W I N G S
I play around with (self created) 3D objects

C O M M I S S I O N E D  P A I N T I N G S 
when I think of someone, a painting appears

C O M M I S S I O N E D  I N S I D E  M U R A L S
always in close cooperation with the client

G R A D U A T I O N  R O Y A L  A C A D E M Y  O F  A R T  T H E  H A G U E  2 0 2 3 
The graduation work was placed in gallery 3 at the KABK building, together with other graduates. The size of the paper of the drawings is 3x4 meter.  The drawings are attached on the gallery doors and those are connecting doors to the other two galleries.  

The houses are opposite and complementary to each other.
One is deep, the other shallow.
One with an open top, the other one closed.
An open left door, an open right door.
One has a layered top, the other a layered body.

Black and white together as opposites make grey.
Grey is the ultimate color of balance.
The house is symbol to your world.
The uniqueness of people is beautiful but also very mysterious.

Every person has their own (sub)consciousness, their own home.
You can never enter someone else's and never welcome somebody into yours.

I drew these with my left hand, although I am originally right-handed. With oil pastel. The folded houses are made of blank newsprint paper. Its soft and thin paper with a light grey color. Their size is app. 15 cm high. 

P R E - G R A D U A T I O N  R O Y A L  A C A D E M Y  O F  A R T  T H E  H A G U E  2 0 2 2
Prior to the graduation, was the pre-graduation work.

I folded several small houses of approximately 15 to 20 cm high.
No doors and no windows. It became my personal origami.
The repetition in my work is important.
No plan and no rules.
Feel the form.
I present them on the ground. The floor is created from the same paper as the houses.

They are small and vulnerable. You could never go in.

The floor of the houses is corresponding with the galery doors, in color and in shape: 8 light grey rectangles. This was the connection to create the large drawings and hang them on the galery doors as a next step and to the graduation work. 
I cut a door in the folded houses. And opened the galery doors.

 

I work and live in the The Hague, The Netherlands.
Born in Friesland, The Netherlands, 1974

Graduated Royal Academy of Art The Hague, Fine Arts in 2023

You can always contact me for any question or conversation.

Email: emgee2010@gmail.com
Instragram: @marjangroenevld

I like to keep things simple and at the same time I’m very much interested in the (sub)consciousness of myself and others, which is not so simple at all. 
I use my art to simplify and understand partially this rich complex (sub)conscious world. Playing around makes my head empty and that’s what’s needed to literally create a life that’s still, a still life. It’s like a screenshot of this quiet mysterious inner world. 
When I feel like paining it I know it touched me somewhere, the soul talks. And that’s exactly what I want to depict. Painting for me affirms connection and reveals it through new materials, colors, size and style which all have their own symbolism in the work. 
In terms of color, topics or style the paintings don’t form a series. They form a series because of the process.