Can you imagine, an Art Exhibition with only my paintings!!
For 7 weeks!! Pinch me!

Right now I'm busy with preparations, finishing two paintings, if possible filming a bit of painting process, varnishing three paintings, framing four paintings, making a price list and so on....
Next week the 14th of March at 17.00 is the Vernissage!

On Monday the 11th I'm going to bring my paintings to Gnosjö Kultur & Bibliotek and decide on how we are putting up all paintings. Really exciting!
Can't wait to see all my paintings together in one space.

This week on Thursday a reporter from the local newspaper is coming for an interview.
All very exciting things happening. I'll make sure to make lots of pictures!

If you are around, make sure to visit my Art Exhibition to see a colour explosion.
Click the picture below to see and read the event post on Facebook.
Everybody is welcome to the Vernissage, 14 March 17.00.

Happy New Year!
May your year be full of joy, health and creativity!

I have started the year with finishing a new journal, working on new paintings for my coming exhibitions and planning for our vegetable garden.

I have two exhibitions coming up, one I Februari in Värnamo library. They have a wall available for hobby artists to book for a month. 
And the other exhibition is in Gnosjö, in "Första Rummet", a small gallery-space at the library especially for exhibitions, from 14/3 - 1/5. Really excited about these two exhibitions,

I'm definitely feeling a bit pressure to finish some new paintings as I've sold some in the end of last year. It would be nice to have a collection of paintings that match to each other. But it would be more "me" if they all mismatch and make both exhibitions to a colourful happy gathering of my paintings, old and new.

You see, what I want and what it probably will become is different.
That is just me putting pressure on myself by wanting a collection of matching paintings.
I know they will in a way match to each other any way, because they're all made by me and they are happy colourful paintings!

So now I've started the year well by writing a new blogpost and will continue to do this more often. I will include more about my other interests as well like gardening and journal making from now on.

Hope you enjoyed reading and that you will continue to return for updates !
​See you soon !

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I wanted to try to make it a bit easier for me, for you, for everybody that every now and than has a scattered brain!
​And so I have made a list with ideas on how to get my creative head a bit more organised. If you have tips that are not in my list, please let me know in the comments!

When I felt disconnected from myself, couldn’t process my feelings, I turned to painting.
It literally has changed my life, it opened up so many ways to express myself, it helped me grief, (read more about me starting to paint after losing my father here). It taught me to connect to "me" again, to tap into my intuition, but it also gave me a whole new world of understanding other people being like me.
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Being a sensitive and introvert person doesn’t make it easy to express yourself. 
When you do not have or do not know a way to express all those feelings inside of you, things can be tough.
It feels like you are in a boat drifting away, further and further from yourself.
​At least, that's how it could feel for me.

But quite soon I wanted to stop painting from pictures, it didn't feel like what I was supposed to paint. I wanted to paint without an example and not copying things. I didn't want to paint realistic anymore. I wanted to paint what I felt, to paint from inside is how I use to call it.
​But how do you stop painting realistic and do you start painting from inside,  intuitively?

Overcoming grief

I think his death was one of the most devastating things I’ve been going through, and for two years I was in a kind of pause. I couldn’t do it, I wasn’t able to digest that kind of grief. I just lived life and put the pain away like it wasn't there. Until after two years something happened, I started to notice that I felt so much better being around my father’s easel and his paints.
And so I finally decided I wanted to start painting and so my healing journey began.

Hi and welcome to my new blog,
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My name is Marielle, I’m from the Netherlands.
Together with my husband I live in Spain. We have two children, a daughter and a son. Only since a few years can I say “I am an Artist” without doubting my own words.


Art as my healing.

I started painting in 2016, at the age of 44.
It was more than two years since my father had passed away.
Being around his painting supplies was comforting and slowly I felt the growing need to start painting like he had done.
Finally I began painting with his paints which I had inherited.