Marlies Vonk @ Broomhill
Marlies Vonk
We have asked the artist to provide a statement about their work, an edited personal history, and a selection of exhibitions and commissions. The content here is entirely their words and selection. Works illustrated here have been chosen by the artist.
The works shown on this page are not necessarily on display at Broomhill.
Some other works by Marlies Vonk
The Artist Speaks
Marlies Vonk's art work is clearly figurative with exuberant expression. Most of the times restrained with a keen eye for facial and bodily expression.
She is specialized in the human figure. What stands out is her use of a 'dry oil technique'. She applies the oil-paint almost transparent like a watercolour, layer over layer on the canvas. She puts a lot of time in sketching and design, but when it really comes to painting, time never has been an issue.
Marlies Vonk, visual artist and European Master in Arts and Culture, combines unique traditional skills with personal commitment.
Marlies Vonk, European Master in Arts and Culture is a full time self supporting artist/painter since 1980. She and her partner and manager, Ton van Loenen, live and work in Oirschot, a small historical town in the South of the Netherlands. They recently moved with their studio/atelier to a beautiful almost 400-year old 'listed building' in the medieval Market Square that is surrounded by chestnut trees.
Study Trips
Marlies Vonk made, since 1980, many study trips as a self-supporting artist painter. She and her partner and manager, Ton van Loenen, lived and worked several years in USA: Dallas, Texas; Atlanta, Georgia and visited over forty states, followed by one year in the Antibes, France and two years in the Dutch Caribbean.
She also made extensive work visits: Colombia to sketch South American Tango; New Orleans, Aruba and Curacao for the typical, colourful Caribbean Carnival and Japan to sketch Kabuki actors, Sumo wrestlers and to study Geisha life at an authentic Japanese Geisha house.
From 1992 until 1998 she sketched and studied movement at some of the world's top-ballet companies. Such as the famous Martha Graham Ballet Company in New York, the Dutch National Ballet in Amsterdam and the renowned N.D.T. Nederlands Danstheater, The Hague.
For her European Master Degree in Arts and Culture she took intensive study weeks at the Montfort University, Leicester, England; Universidad del Arte Granada, Spain; and, Fontys University Tilburg, The Netherlands.
Selected Exhibitions
2002 The Hague - Holland Art Fair
2002 Barnstaple, Devon, England - Broomhill Art Gallery
2001 Dallas, Texas, USA - Southwest Watercolor Society
2001 Oirschot (permanent) - Auberge De Zwaan (1623)
2000 Montfoort, Willeskop - Art & Velvet Gallery Stierestal
1999 Oirschot - Hof van Solms
1999 Tilburg - Fontys Art University - European Master presentation
1998 Barnstaple, Devon, England - Broomhill Art Gallery
1997 Congresgebouw, The Hague - Holland Art Fair
1996 Sarasota, Florida, USA - State Street Art Gallery
1995 Dallas, Texas, USA - Florence Art Gallery
1996 Geleen - Living and Art Gallery
1995 Rijswijk NB - Rybroeck Art Agency
1995 Amsterdam - World Trade Centre
1995 Oirschot - Kunst Kijkhuis Koestraat
1994 Gouda - Gouda Theatre
1993 The Hague - AT&T Dance Theatre
1992 Oirschot - Kunst Kijkhuis Koestraat
1991 Sint Michielsgestel - Atelier Acht A
1990 Aruba, Dutch Antilles - Golden Tulip Resort
Commissions
RABO Bank The Netherlands
AT&T Network Systems
Hotel Zandbergen, Amsterdam
C&A Computers
Oirschot Local Government
Consolidated Holland
Gouda Theatre
Auberge De Zwaan (permanent collection)
MP Koot financial consulting, Oirschot
