Marielle Schram is a Dutch artist living and working in England.

Her style of painting is very distinctive, quietness being the main characteristic. She has enjoyed growing success with an increasing number of individuals collecting her art. She works mainly in oils on canvas. The canvas is prepared with the natural, unbleached, colour preserved. She often says “for me, preparing the canvas is part of the painting process, I like to get a feel for the size and often I am already thinking about the painting to be”. That way the chosen, natural object and the artist’s materials blend beautifully and naturally to create the oasis of calm, which has become the defining characteristic of her paintings.

The most important thing for her is to be able to convey emotions which are not easily expressed, but are common human emotions. “I use a leaf or a berry as a means of expressing something deeper. I try to go beyond the obvious; I would like to appeal to the emotion, recognizable for all of us. Painting is about making the invisible visible. Feeling is like seeing.”

Selection of Exhibitions:

Cat hill Gallery, London
Pantiles Edge Gallery, Tunbridge Wells
Farnham Maltings, Farnham
Affordable Art Fair London and Amsterdam
Orleans House Gallery, Twickenham
Apple Gallery, Godalming
Arthousestudios , Nottingham
Brighton Art Fair
Stables Gallery, Twickenham.
Chase Art Gallery, Wadebridge, Cornwall
Robert Phillips Gallery, Walton-on-Thames
Surrey Artists Open Studios
Artspace- Navestock
Windsor Street Gallery, Chertsey
Gallery 47, London
Haydon Gallery, Guildford
Oaklawn Gallery, Leatherhead
Atrium Gallery, London
Arti 07 The Hague, The Netherlands

Forthcoming exhibitions in 2008:

Affordable Art Fair in London 13-16 March
Surrey Artists Open Studios 7-22 June