GALLERY BAYBREEZE
marlies
michelsen
artist profile
"I paint for the purest pleasure of creation, for the free flow of subconscious thought, to
epitomise beauty"
Marlies is splitting his time equally between painting; a relatively new found passion and
managing her beautiful Guesthouse in Hout Bay - Cape Town - overlooking the Atlantic
Ocean with stunning views over the mountains and beach.
www.baybreezegusthouse.com
She paints from a studio with the amazing views of the bay and harbour .
Her abstract mixed media canvasses are inspired by her love and passion for the African
environment, her works are full of intense shades, movement and charged textures - often
entwined with Metallic hughes!
Marlies captures the raw energies driving nature in abstract organic form - specializing in
sea scapes with windswept beaches or turbulent waves or landscapes of
blazing sunsets, dessert sands and rolling African hills.
Her work is suggestive with an elusive quality, taking on what the viewer wants to see.
Her abstract mixed media canvases convey movement , freedom, mobility, the alchemy of
the moment is decisive- from transparent nuances to 3 dimensional bold statements
often with often using her signature Metallic's. - which embody Africa - rich golds, mercurial
silvers and fiery coppers tones.