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Marian Hulshof

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Digger

Digger (2025), textiel, olie acryl op linnen, 105×75 cm
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Opspokende luchtwortels

Opspokende luchtwortels (2024), textiel, olie, acryl op linnen, 135×90 cm
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Avalon

Avalon (2024), textiel, acryl, olie op linnen, 75 x 105 cm

Buigen en barsten

Buigen en barsten (2024), textiel, acryl, olie, 75×105 cm

Leaves of Callosa

Leaves from trees on handprinted paper (2023-2024), ± 33 x 28 cm

Arterial

Arterial (2020), textiel, acryl, olieverf op linnen, 135 x 90 cm

Where do you go

Where do you go (2012 – 2015), textiel, acryl, olie op linnen, 180 x 300 cm (triptiek). Foto: Marja Riedstra
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Hiroka

Hiroka (2022), tafeltje hout & textiel, 44 x 53 cm
Hiroka
Hiroka
Hiroka

Solid secret

Solid Secret (2022), textiel, acryl, olie op linnen, 105 x 75 cm

Streams

New Forest
Avebury
New Forest
New Forest
New Forest
New Forest
New Forest
New Forest
Janet’s Foss, Yorkshire
Stour Estuary
High Water
Hackfall Yorkshire
Achluachrach Scotland

Voluptuousness

Voluptuousness (2009), textiel, acryl, olie op linnen, 105 x 75 cm. Foto: Marian Hulshof
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Network

Network (2020), velours, fiberfil, 85 x 110 cm. Foto: Margo Biewinga
Network (2020), velours, fiberfil, 85 x 110 cm. Photo: Margo Biewinga
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Échelle au Ciel

Échelle au Ciel (2019), bamboo, fabric, construction material, 1200x100x10 cm. Photos: Louis-Michel Grevent, Carlotta Brunetti, Marian Hulshof, Pascal Aymar. Info: expo

Mature trees

Whims of nature

Beetsterzwaag
New Forest
New Forest
New Forest
New Forest
New Forest
New Forest
New Forest
New Forest
New Forest
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New Forest
New Forest
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New Forest

Solitary trees

Axbridge UK
Pately Bridge UK

Source

The origination of my photos are long wanderings through woods and fields in The Netherlands and abroad. On travels through Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Cambodia, Nepal  among other countries, I see growths that stand out.
England takes a particular place. Once a year I enjoy the numerous public footpaths.  These are an exquisite area to encounter trees that got time and space to full-grow.  The trees are alternated by left mines, dismantled railways and other remains of industrial activities, often overgrown with a dense foliage.
My camera serves  to research my artist’s themes: I make pictures of objects that intuitively catch my attention. Doing so, I collected an enormous number of trees, people and natural phenomena. On my website you find a selection.

Human traces

Trees in New Zealand & Australia

Wai-o-tapu, smoking soils (NZ)

Artists’ Palette
Devil’s Home
Rainbow Crater
Thunder Crater
Opal Pool
Champagne Pool
Panoramic View
Bridal Veil
Alum Cliffs
Frying Pan
Oister Pool
Sulphur Cave
Champagne Pool
Champagne Pool
Inferno Crater
Devil´s Bath

Cappadocia, Fairy Tale (TK)

Resurrexit, Outdoor exhibition (F)

8 artists are warmly welcomed from 24 August until 2 September 2019 in Grateloup-Saint-Gayrand, in order to let revive the little 12th century church. See here the results.

Damast

Damast (2022), table wood & fabric, 45 x 61 cm

Iris

Iris (2022), tafeltje hout, textiel, 45 x 58 cm

Namaste

Namaste (2022), tafeltje hout, textiel, 45 x 52 cm

Nakatsugawa

Nakatsugawa (2022), table wood, fabric, 45 x 52 cm

Solid and curved

Textile, colourful little tables, stand up alone grace to their wooden kernel.

Shiva

Shiva (2022), tafeltje hout, textiel, 46 x 56 cm

Laan Hof ter Saksen

Laan Hof ter Saksen / Getemd (2015), textiel, acryl, olie op linnen, 16 parts, 220 x ca.800 cm. Fhoto: Marleen de Molenaer
Getemd, red 90 x 60 cm
Getemd, kingsblue, 140 x 90 cm
Getemd, burgundy, 140 x 90 cm
Getemd, cobalt blue, 220 x 140 cm
Getemd, lila, 220 x 140 cm

Vitality

Vitality (2018), fabric, acrylic on linen, 75 x 105 cm
Vitality (2018), textiel, acryl op linnen, 75 x 105 cm
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Coming home

Coming Home (2013), textiel, acryl, olie op linnen, 75 x 105 cm. Foto: Marja Riedstra
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Struggle for life

Exuberant life, procreation and decay are my themes. The most obvious situation where these themes are visible is, when nature and culture struggle for space, where trees grow in whimsical ways to survive.
I use textile and paint. Working with textile is a time consuming way of making art, but there is a reward: fabrics give intense colours and tactility. Touching fabrics is delightful. I like to examine their transparency, their softness or roughness, their flexibility or stiffness. In combination with paint a diverse palette of colour shades and textures arises. According to Leeuwarder Courant (14th of June 2013) this makes my work quirky and independent-minded.

Distortion

Distortion (2013), textiel acryl op spielatten, 100 x 160 cm
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Infinite light

Infinite light (2015), textiel, acryl, olie op linnen, 75 x 105 cm. Foto: Marja Riedstra
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Contempla

Contempla (2011), textiel, acryl, olie op linnen, 105 x 150 cm (tweeluik). Foto: John Stoel
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Gold

Gold (2008), textiel, acryl, olie, op canvas, 220 x 165 cm. Foto: Jelle de Groot
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Approach

Approach (2011), textiel, acryl, olie op linnen, 75 x 105 cm
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Before the Tempest

Before the Tempest (2007), textiel, acryl, olie op canvas, 205 x 140 cm. Foto: Jelle de Groot
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Eclatant

Eclatant (2009), fabric, acrylic, oil on linen, 105 x 75 cm. Photo: Jelle de Groot
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Embraceable

Embraceable (2009), fabric, acrylic, oil on linen, 105 x 75 x 6,5 cm. Photo: Jelle de Groot
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Survival

Survival (2009), fabric, acrylic, oil on linen, 75 x 105 cm. Photo: Jelle de Groot
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Catharsis

Catharsis, fabric, acrylic, oil on linen, 75 x 105 cm
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Human Traces

  • Human Traces #1 – 8 (2016), charcoal on paper, 50 x 70 cm each

Tree of a Human

Tree of a Human #1 – 18 (2016), charcoal, chalk on jeans

Achluachrach

  • Achluachrach #1 – 4 (2012), charcoal on paper, 70 x 90 à 100 cm each

Angkor

  • Angkor #1 – 11 (2018), oil on paper on dibond, 50 x 70 cm each

Oudolf’s Garden

  • Oudolf’s Garden (2015), acrylic on linen, 30 x 30 cm each

Spectrum of Beeches

  • Spectrum of Beeches (2015), acrylic on paper on MDF, 15 x 10 cm each
  • Orange

Boleijn

  • Boleijn #1 – 4 (2011), watercolor on paper on linen, 50 x 70 cm each

Myth of Nature

Myth of Nature (2012) , policarbonate, aluminiumprofiles, wrapstrips, suspending materials, 407 x 270 cm

Stellingname

Stellingname (2010), fabric, acrylic, oil on linen, 100 x 160 cm. Photo: Sijtze Veldema

Deterioration

Deterioration (2008), acrylic, oil, textile, on canvas, 220 x 165 cm. Photo: Jelle de Groot
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Dialogue with the site

The source of my site-specific art is an inner dialogue with the place. I experience its silence, its history, its geography and create in response and in harmony with what exists.
An art project is a temporary intervention in nature, nature remains predominant. Art and nature strengthen each other. Art possibly brings the history of the site into life, evokes to discover the place and creates awareness of how great nature is. It brings the public out of daily life. Through the artists’ eyes the visitor experiences new aspects of the site.
Essential is the interaction between public and artist. If possible I invite the inhabitants of the area to share the process of creation.
I’m intrigued by the influence of humans on nature. Long ago nature could develop itself, but now in Europe few untouched nature subsists.
The word ‘nature’ demands a further explanation. Artists in Nature International Network (AiNIN), of which I am a member, avoids to be purist about nature. The network has the following definition of nature: ‘Nature is what exists when the artist arrives.‘

AiNIN’s mission
AiNIN website

Roots

‘Langzamerhand verander ik van een schrijver in een wandelaar. Een wandelaar die zich op een zonnige lentedag door een bos beweegt, genietend van de kleuren, geuren en vormen om zich heen. Hij komt een boom tegen en verbaast zich over de vorm, de bladeren, het licht van de zon erop. Zijn blik gaat naar beneden en volgt de stam van de boom, die uitloopt in een netwerk van wortels. Grote dikke wortels, die zich langzaam vertakken in steeds kleinere uitlopers. Hij lijkt door de grond heen te kijken, verwonderd over alles wat hij niet kan zien. Ineens vraagt hij zich af, of er fysieke vormen uit zijn lichaam kunnen groeien als hij blijft staan, die net als de boom, met eindeloze vertakkingen geleidelijk opgaan in de omgeving.’
Emile de Jong (kunstenaar, fotograaf, 2008)

Titan

Titan / Hemelbestormer, oil, acrylic, textile on canvas, 200×50 cm

Hiroka

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