Martine Jacobs

Artist Profile – Martine Jacobs

Martine Jacobs is a contemporary artist from the Netherlands whose work explores the intersection of geometry, spirituality, and emotion. Inspired by origami forms and pastel color palettes, her compositions often combine folded figures with abstract structures, sometimes framed in Mondrian-like grids, sometimes floating freely in layered space.

Her art reflects a fascination with movement and symbolic storytelling, blending delicate hand-colored textures with bold architectural lines. Jacobs’ work has been featured in digital arts media in New York and resonates with audiences who seek playful abstraction and narrative geometry.

Through her pastel origami-inspired figures, she invites viewers to experience a balance between fragility and strength, order and imagination.



Jesus and his brides

I spent my adolescent years among Jesus and his brides in an old Catholic boarding school. Confined, and only home on weekends, I dreamed the paintings I later made.



Erotic attic

With my man on my 17th birthday, I decided to take control of my life. I exchanged the convent for an erotic attic. Fortune smiled on us and the world was ours. We worked to put bread on our plates and roamed the earth be...

Ruudt Wackers academie Amsterdam

Florence Biennale, Fortezza da Basso, Italy – official UN “Dialogue among Civilizations” program

MAC21 International Contemporary Art Fair, Marbella, Spain – winning entry

Contemporary Pastel in Europe, Italy & Russia – UNESCO patronage

Biennale of Computer Graphics, St. Petersburg, Russia

The Coaster Project – Destination: The World², global traveling exhibition

XXX Aniversario Batik, Sala Barna, Barcelona, Spain

The Four Elements, Este Castle, Ferrara, Italy

Affordable Art Fair, New York, USA (via Perdurabo Art)

International Artexpo, New York, USA (via Perdurabo Art)

Biennale Pasteli, Poland

VirtuArt Exhibitions, Barcelona & Catalunya, Spain

Galerie Gora, Montréal, Canada

Permanent exhibition, Hanf Museum, Berlin, Germany

Bergen’s Kunst 10-daagse, Netherlands

Osaka Triennial, Japan – international painting competition

Galerie Moffet, Toulouse, France

Iberico Alcorcón, Madrid, Spain

Kunstschip K.E.E.S., Den Helder, Netherlands

Luttik Ouddorp, Alkmaar, Netherlands

Galerie Art Kring 88, Enkhuizen, Netherlands

Huisduiner Kerk, Huisduinen, Netherlands

Stompe Toren, Spaarndam, Netherlands

NIOZ, Texel, Netherlands

Pere Sousa, Barcelona, Spain

Grassart, Germany – traveling exhibition

MOCA – Museum of Com...