2017-06-21-sitting-pretty-edit-001-website.jpg Painting by Marleen Pauwels

  • Original Artwork Painting, Oil / Other on Wood
  • Dimensions Height 15.8in, Width 47.2in
  • Categories Paintings under $5,000 Expressionism
Pauwels' current paintings feature either extremely elongated or very small, cartoonlike figures in a minimalist environment. In one way, she is showing something rather recognizable but by playing with scale she wants to provoke a kind of anarchy in the image and creating a counterbalance in her otherwise more melancholic and introspective work.[...]
Pauwels' current paintings feature either extremely elongated or very small, cartoonlike figures in a minimalist environment. In one way, she is showing something rather recognizable but by playing with scale she wants to provoke a kind of anarchy in the image and creating a counterbalance in her otherwise more melancholic and introspective work. Like in her other work, her canvas’ are wooden panels, built upon with newsprint, sand and oil paints. Each one a commentary, many with imbedded written, often ambiguous or challenging, thoughts. The titles and the subjects themselves a comment on social attitudes.

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Marleen Pauwels is a contemporary Belgian painter. Over the years the artist’s style has evolved using various media including etching, collage and oil paint. In her current[...]

Marleen Pauwels is a contemporary Belgian painter. Over the years the artist’s style has evolved using various media including etching, collage and oil paint. In her current work, she has created her own distinctive form of expression with the use of mixed media on panel. Her application of color has been inspired by the natural earth pigments she has discovered during her many travels throughout Spain.

The human figure is a constant presence in her work, emerging from her fascination with the fragility of the human condition. Her figures reflect in their elongated, nude almost transparent bodies a feeling of isolation, but also a strength and power to go back to the essence of what we are. She confirms this statement by putting them in empty abandoned spaces away from any unnecessary adornments.

Marleen Pauwels was born in 1959, in Belgium. She had solo and group shows at museums, galleries, artist-run spaces and art fairs and her artworks could be found in private and corporate collections throughout Europe. Pauwels lives and works in Spain.


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