Jalan Jalan, go wonder (large mixed media painting on stretched canvas)

Jalan Jalan, go wonder by Marijke Lambregtse. This work is much about the experience while living in a remote village in Bali. I started with the same theme of tracing my footsteps I did for my solo exhibition here in Bali at the Four Seasons Resort Art Gallery. It’s even more urgent now to reconsider what we are doing where we are going and how we can manage to help stop getting climate change worse. Of course first thing is not to travel anymore at least by plane. We decided to fly as we were staying for a long time in this remote village. We walked (Jalan Jalan) everywhere, didn’t use motorbikes or cars only occasionally if we had to get groceries for the week. We got to know the local people which is really nice. Our host was the village priest, Pak Manku
Although it was nice to stay in Kelabang Moding we were confronted daily with the inability to cope with the waste. It’s really really bad apparently education hasn’t helped that much with the litter we see every day in the ricefields and plastic still gets burned on the side of the roads. There is a recycling plant in Denpasar which has been closed because of the air pollution it caused!! So it did give me a mental and physical headache which actually made me want to paint even more. I painted quite a few works which made me feel positive and hopeful as usual which I hope reflects in this work. I gave the painting a soft, colorful and positive feel by using gorgeous expressive colors as Bali is still an amazingly beautiful, fertile place with a strong culture which has survived despite everything going on in the world. Plus it gives the viewer food for thought and discussion.
As usual in my latest works there is the little guardian you can find in the work who’s been protecting me while living in Bali and symbolically will keep anyone safe who owns and gets to enjoy this work
The work will come varnished and signed at the back with a certificate of authenticity

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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