Don’t forget to go home

Original artwork by Marijke Lambregtse inspired by her last trip in Queensland, Australia in the outback. Close to a fossil town and indigenous peoples villages. It was amazing, beautiful and eye opening. The colors, the smell of the dry crackling leaves and gorgeous wild flowers I loved especially. The dry and the wet has specifically influenced these works as well. I worked every day on a different sheet of paper. Dipped them in the soil or rubbed the soil on and drew and made preliminary expressive marks about the experience. Coming home with six different works as a base to make a new series about this short journey. It was also a time of reflection and meditation about the environment and the world as it is right now. So some of these thoughts will of course also have found its way in these works.
I used text, texture, pen, pencil, oil soluble pastels, oil pastels, collage and acrylic paint in an imaginative way to create this interesting work which gives food for thought and at the same time is a beautiful decorative work which will enhance any wall.
Needs framing, frames in the Insitu pictures as an example only and are not included. Can easily be framed by collector or local framer
The paper is recycled, acid free, archival and for 30% of post consumer fiber
Comes varnished in a roll to minimize packing materials
Signed on the front and on the back, with a certificate of authenticity stamp

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‘A work is born from a kind of confused emotion. The work is an attempt to elucidate that emotion.’ Puvis de Chavannes

‘An abstract language that reveals references to an aesthetic figuration with a surreal flavour. This is the art of Marijke Lambregtse, an Australian based contemporary artist of Dutch origin, who focuses her artistic research on the relationship between man and the world, in its most hidden aspects. Her paintings are often characterized by the presence of human-like figures, whose facial features vanish overwhelmed by fields of colour, annihilating gestural communication and leaving the latter in complete control of emotions.

An alternation of more gestural brushstrokes and more detailed and sharply described elements, give the work a pleasant dynamism. Looking at Marijke Lambregtse's paintings, we feel out of place, in awe, as if we have crossed the threshold into another world and we are suddenly strangers. (Francesca Brunello)

Her recent abstract figurative works arise from a growing eco-anxiety and a critical concern for the state of the world today. Shaped by direct encounters with climate change, pollution, displacement, and environmental injustice, the work responds to systems that prioritise profit, control, and exploitation over care and coexistence. She seeks to harmoniously merge message and aesthetics, using emotionally charged strikingly colorful, acrylic paint, recycled materials, text, and texture to confront viewers with both beauty and unease.

A professional dancer, teacher and choreographer before crossing over to studying visual art and gaining a BVA majoring in sculpture at Griffith University in Brisbane she was awarded the Karl and Gertrude Langer Award which resulted in a solo exhibition at the Brisbane Town Hall gallery.

Since then she has been exhibiting regularly with several solo exhibitions, being a finalist in numerous art awards and has been widely collected in Australia and overseas.

Brunswick Street Gallery Small Works Art Prize 2026
Lethbridge 2025 Small Scale Art Prize salon finalist
Finalist Abstraction Exhibition Petrie Terrace Gallery 2025/2024
Finalist in Lethbridge 2024/2023 Small Scale Art Awards Salon de Refusés
Finalist in the Brisbane Rotary Art Show 2024/2023
Finalist in the Brisbane Portrait Prize Salon des Refugees 2022
Finalist in the RQAS annual Exhibition 2023
Finalist in the Amore exhibition at Artprenr Gallery 2023
Finalist in the Queensland Figurative 2022
Finalist in the Lethbridge 20000 Small Scale Art Award in 2022, 21, 20 and 2019
Awarded the Power of Creativity Art Prize by Contemporary Curator Art Magazine in 2021
Highly Commended in the Abstraction Exhibition Royal Queensland Art Society 2021
Finalist in the Rotary Spectacular Brisbane in 2019 and 2018