Mardoe Painter

1996-1998. Master of Fine Arts. Ohio State University, Department of Art, Columbus Ohio, USA.      

1992-1996. Bachelor of Fine Arts. Interdisciplinary: Academy Minerva, Groningen, The Netherlands.

Member of Professional Dutch Photographers Association GKf (www.dupho.nl/platforms/gkf)

Member of Amsterdam based Professional Artist Association ARTI ET AMICITIAE (www.arti.nl)

I create with a spontaneous and instinctual approach, which in a sense is giving me access into myself. It is like having a collision occur between the known and the subconscious. My artistic drive is a personal effort to gain some amount of control over uncontrollable situations.

Relics of the absentees

The constant changing shapes of nature to me are a vast and humble reminder of the fleeting transitions in life.This has motivated me to produce my own narratives about authenticity, intimacy, the unknown, absence, time, disruption and hope.  

My work is a study of the process where physical structures become remnants of their original form. With the use of my own drawings or (found) photographs as a starting point, I begin working. While working I disappear into my personal parallel universe. Getting lost for a while. Exploring universal themes like interdependence, social frameworks, physical structures, identity and human relationships.