Margot Maaskant

Addicted to painting, I have to create, every day, every hour. Smearing paint is fun! Everything I paint is a reflection of my soul, it feels good to create something that was never there before and that no one else can do like I can. It is nice to be working with oil paint, directing the material in just the right direction to create the image I envision, colorful and expressive. Playing with paint, brushes, foils and whatever else is available to create a new image. Discovering, inventing, coming up with new variations. That is exciting and often happens naturally, that is flow.
Each painting is colorful, personal, impressionistic, expressive, realistic. Inspired by nature and viewed from surprising perspectives. The urge to experiment, innovate, reinvent myself and work from my heart and soul is visible in the development I go through as an artist.
Besides painting, cycling is my great passion. Freedom, being outside, seeing the landscape I love to paint pass by, being in the middle of it. The wind through my hair, the sun on my face, a fly in my eye, clouds above my head. My thoughts run wild, anything goes in those moments and my mind fills with the most diverse ideas for paintings.
Farmers harvesting, sowing and fertilizing ...

St. Joost Art Academy, Breda, the Netherlands

Gallery ECCE, Rotterdam (continuing from january 1999 until May 2023)
Pullman Hotel, Munich
Hilton Hotel, Mainz
Amstelveen En-Plein-Air, Cobra Museum
Gallery ECCE, Rotterdam (continuous)
BredaArtFair, Great Church, Breda
The Colorfield Performance, Friesland Summer exhibition St. Stevenskerk, Nijmegen 3x
Museum Opsterlân, Friesland
The December Store, Open Studio, Breda
Gallery23, Helmond (solo)
Summer exhibition St. Stevenskerk, Nijmegen 3x
Gallery Holland Art Trading, Ulvenhout
Galerie Mens & Natuur, St. Martens-Latem, Belgium
Art Event, Art Fair, Groningen, Groningen
Art-Event, Art Fair, Antwerp Expo, Antwerp, Belgium
Dutch Landscapes, Kemerovo, Siberia, Russia
Vertizontaal, Breda (solo)
ILC Taleninstituut, Waalwijk (solo)
StradmeijerGrajer Makelaars, Heemstede (solo)
Kunstschouw Westerschouwen, Galerie J. Eikenaar, Burgh-Haamstede
Court house Breda (solo)
Gallery Segeren, Breda
Artiade Art Fair, Breda
Gallery NV De Beeldenstorm, Bosschenhoofd
Headquarters Rabobank, Breda (solo)
Kos Gallery, Zierikzee
Art Event, Art Fair, Rotterdam
Peoples Gallery, Heerhugowaard
Kunstschouw Westerschouwen, Galerie J. Eikenaar, Burgh-Haamstede
Summer exhibition Nijmegen, St. Stevenskerk
Town hall Oudenbosch (solo)
Gallery Ahoi, Amsterdam
1st BNFK...