MarianneB van der Haar

Always liked the word "play". It is in an interesting word because
in English when you make music, you call it playing music, but when you make a
painting it is a "work". People don't say an "art-play".
MarianneB also likes the word primitive because a lot of what she does is primitive. She
only took a few lessons but she learned in a primitive way to paint a piece of Fine Art.
She is a painter who is driven by inspiration; whatever comes to her or crosses her path
in her daily life may find its way to the waiting canvas.
The inspiration for the flower is the spring season witch starts early in Georgia.
By planting the spring flowers into the warm soil, her imagination is growing under the
golden, yellow, bright warm sun and the blue sky hitting the naked trees.
And a little later she was messing with colors like the German painter Gerhard Richter
does - not necessarily the correct color of the flowers as they will bloom in her garden in
the summer, just the shape. The paintings have so many different reds, yellows, greens
and blues that it seems like you find yourself in a calm, magic garden. "Isn't it great to
get a bit of magic like that any time in your life?" she asks. ...

February 2009 Featured Artist: MarianneB van der Haar

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