Marie Louise Oudkerk

Marie Louise was born in 1958 in Bennekom – Holland and grew up in a musical and artistic family. For ten years she was daily busy painting, she started with watercolors then mixed techniques and now acrylic on cloth. After years of hard struggle against disappointments and strokes of luck, she finally reached the road she wanted to conduct: the acrylic painting on linen, big and with soberness in primary colors. In search of balance in freedom and colors, of lines and figures. Harmony has to bring peace in her work. Themes like old cultures and astrology have the leading part in her work. They form a guide and grip for the continuously following paintings. Old cultures are the bridge to our birth, something that will always occupy our minds. The quietness, the colors and the figures do appeal her very much, not mentioning the cultural background. The astrology, because there is a certain mysticism in it, something elusive. The vaguely, mysterious, untouchable she wants to catch in her paintings. Painting in this way brings her a balance in this hectic life of to day. It takes a lot of courage to conquer that immense great white sheet. This challenge gives her the inexhaustible need to paint. The artist-existence is a balance between deep valley’s and high peaks, doubt, acknowledgement and grief, but for me a passion. Always in search for other possibilities, to shift her boundaries within framed thoughts is the way she wants to work and develop.

Marie Louise Oudkerk Images:
Ode To Music I
Ode To Music II