Pink memories

Pink memories, original artwork by Marijke Lambregtse
This painting started spontaneously in a very expressionistic way when listening to one of Beethovens Sonates (no 17 in D minor) which brought back childhood memories of my mum playing the piano when I came home for lunch from school and hurrying to the small grocery store with my little shopping list thinking of my ballet class after school racing back home with the pink coconut cheese I was allowed to have occasionally. Pink one of my favorite colors, pink ballet shoes and green from the forest we would go to and look for the special red mushroom. Mushrooms emerging from darkness and decay are a favorite recurrence in my latest works as a symbol for rebirth, spiritual growth and are vital to the ecosystems around the world, they are little environmental heroes! Through mycelium, mushrooms help other plants share nutrients and communicate through chemical signals. Quiet achievers!
I’m sure everyone has their favorite childhood memories and sharing some of mine is so much fun. I hope this vibrant colorful painting which will be part of a new series will bring a sense of fun and warmth to your wall and makes you think of your own special sometimes forgotten moments.
Painted on recycled canvas made from 100% recycled plastic bottles, archival and sustainable. Signed on the back with a certificate of authenticity stamp this loose canvas will come varnished in a roll to minimize packing waste. If required I can stretch the canvas at a small extra cost. Or can be easily stretched by your local framer or another option is through BT.

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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