Marleen Pennings

Hello there! My name is Marleen Pennings, I'm a visual artist, working primarily in painting.
Originally I'm from The Netherlands, currently I live and work in the south of Germany.
I studied Fashion Design and Illustration, but concentrated fully on painting after graduating.
My work is about the beauty and strangeness I find in the concept of contrast.

I'm inspired by imperfections in everyday life, unusual and unforeseen fragments, I experience around me.
Clashing colours, mismatched textures or a song that skips a beat.
 These fragments of aesthetic are distilled from their surroundings and translated into paintings and collages and are the ongoing pace in my art.
My love for textile patterns and textures sparks the visual process and creates hints of weaving amorphous rhythms with paint.
My use and mixing of colours, creating my colour palette, invites ever-changing perspectives in my images. Transparent and opaque mix, dark and light layers of colours with graphic and organic forms; carefully piled on top of each other.


Fashion Design & Styling
Illustration
Rotterdam, The Netherlands