" Valse Rose " (2011) Sculpture by Marianne Monnoye-Termeer

Since I can walk, I only think about creating, regardless of the materials; draw, paint, model, cast plaster, cut out, glue
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The few fine arts museums visited during my childhood and later, my adolescence, left in my memory and in my heart an indelible trace of wonder.

Life and the human condition, the marvelous or the terrible that humans can experience, touches me deeply and has a great influence on my emotions and thoughts.

Faces, hands, feet, hold an important place in my work as an artist (to have the feet on the ground, the hands that support and love, the face and the eyes, expressing so many things, looking to the past, the future or towards the loved one).

I strive to sculpt the feelings that emerge from love, brotherhood, friendship, pain and suffering.

For this, I do not only use my hands and my sweat, but also my heart, my dreams, my experience, as an expression of the soul.

Initially the rough shape of the stone guides my chisel towards inspiration and creation.

At the same time, I seek aesthetic beauty and balance in the composition, leaving a part of rough stone, in order to leave room for the imagination, then for everyone's feelings and emotions.

• Nationality: NETHERLANDS
• Date of birth : 1954
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• Groups: Contemporary Dutch Artists