MARVEL (Marianne Velzeboer) Netherlands

Artist: MARVEL (Marianne Velzeboer) Netherlands
She was born in Beemster,Holland,in 1951.
Quoting MARVEL: ‘Painting is like enjoying or making music. I very often paint on music, led by its rhythm, getting inspired at the
mood it is provoking. I like to adapt to the vibrations of the ambient, to the movements of the sun and the moon or the seasons.
Music, poetry, calligraphy, painting, it is all connected, all in one.’
ART has been a leading drive in her life. She got a private education in music, playing the concert organ in, especially, classic
music in which she performed in concerts in churches at high-days. This has been, later on, extended with piano and other key
instruments.
Moreover she went into poetry, and joined in with a Poets Collective.
A number of her poems have been published in poetry collections, or placed, as a fix item, in newspapers.For newspapers she also
wrote articles of interest or as a columnist.Meanwhile she developed an interest in ancient and heraldic writing.
Eventually she started studies in the Art of Calligraphy as well as in History of Script.
She now is a licensed calligraphist, who extended her skills over many years, taking part in international seminars organized by
leading professionals. Many of these were held in monasteries, where – détail saillant – the participants were interned during a
week or more and subjected to the cloister’s regime of isolation and soberness.
Eventually, when she realized that here knowledge and abilities had developed to an ample level, she became a master herself and
she started, beside the music, to teach people also in this field of art, in private, but also in public places, something she did
for about 30 years.
But, since she had made out of her interests her profession and based her living upon it, she also had to make calligraphic related
work by order. A drawback in this respect, was that she got confined in the demands of the subject, and continuously liable to
deadlines and delivery dates.
In the course of time she found herself being inhibited in what she wanted most: working freely in art. New ways -after beginning a
new life in Portugal and some years of contemplation on how she wanted to go on- opened up to her: as a result of her passion for
calligraphy, and especially the world of colour and illustration that is related to it, she started to paint.
At last she could express herself freely, experimenting in order to find new directions, techniques and illustrating forms, and
making all this to her principal occupation.
Eventually she joined in to group exhibitions, organized as well individual ones, in several countries. Her work is represented in
private and corporate collections.
she is a member of the Associação da Amizade e das Artes Galego Portuguesa (AAAGP).
Memberships: Artcom Expo International Association of Artists 2014.