Mente desconcertada numero uno

Mente desconcertada numero uno (Mind Boggled) is part of a series of artworks and was created during my time living in Granada, Spain, where I was immersed in a city rich with history, color, music, and movement. The beauty of the Alhambra, the passion of flamenco, and the vibrant spirit of Andalusian life inspired a flood of sensory and emotional impressions. At the same time, I remained deeply aware of events unfolding around the world and the uncertainties they brought. The fragmented forms, layered imagery, and expressive lines throughout this series reflect a mind processing multiple realities at once—wonder and concern, presence and reflection, personal experience and collective consciousness. Through these works, I explore how our inner worlds are shaped by both the places we inhabit and the wider world beyond them.

As the first painting in the series, this work captures my initial response to Granada's beauty and complexity. Surrounded by centuries of history, vibrant culture, and artistic energy, I felt both inspired and overwhelmed. The layered imagery reflects the beginning of a journey into the relationship between place, perception, and the restless movement of the mind.

Needs to be framed, can be easily framed by the collectors local framer or alternatively by Bluethumb
Comes varnished and signed at the back with a certificate of authenticity in a roll which saves packing material as well as the environment

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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