Marcel Klever

Born 1968, Bunnik, the Netherlands

There is nothing much to tell ! .. Right ?

As a painter you can talk through your paintings. You can convey a story or generate emotions through images. Paint, brushes and, among other things, canvas are just tools for me to generate and bring to life these emotions or stories. When I paint, my mind sends these tools to the end result. The moment I am in a painters 'flow', I slowly build up this emotion with the story, and project it on the canvas or other medium. At that moment my brain is having something convey that concerns me. Of course I start a painting with a certain thought, but it can well change through the course of the process into something unexpected that will (strongly) take the upper hand. I will always embrace that process and let it happen.
The final image I present will not be an accurate figurative construction of this emotion or story, but rather an abstract representation of it. It will have to do with something that concerns me at that moment, at that time, in that period. It is like a dream translated into paint on canvas with brushes and other tools.
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Themes that currently concern me are for example: Man in relation to nature. "Man is nature" is the statement. I...

​Marcel was educated at the Utrecht School of the Arts as an interior architect and furniture designer. He liked to paint here back then. However, it was not until 2019 that Marcel started painting more seriously next to his work as a designer.
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But here's what's first:
1991: Marcel klever graduated as interior architect / furniture designer from the Hogeschool voor de Kunsten (HKU) in Utrecht

1992-1993 Marcel studied for a few years at the Rotterdam Academy of Architecture and the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Utrecht.

In 1993,  Marcel started, together with partner Gerrit Vos, interior design studio Workshop of Wonders in Utrecht. As young designers, we introduced bamboo plate material to the furniture market and we were front runners in the transition from an 80s design to a more minimalist 90s style. From smaller furniture projects, the assignment package grew to more extensive and complex assignments. They have designed holiday homes for for organizations such as Staatsbosbeheer. A major project for the University of Utrecht and the 5 branches of Hogeschool Tio also came from Workshop of Wonders.

2010: After 17 years of being involved in the Workshop of Wonders, Marcel  started his own furnitu...