Way home (finalist Lethbridge 20000 Small Scale Art Awards Salon des Refusés 2024)

This is my second work on paper while in Bali, living in a remote village. The work is mounted professionally on a thick high quality deep edged wooden panel.
This painting is much influenced by the torrential unseasonal rain we had days on end, everything was so wet and stayed wet and of course the paint did dry very slowly. But the sun came out again and the air cleaned up from the burning smoke and people felt better you could see it from the way they walked, look and greeted us.
I started feeling a bit of eco anxiety again about what is happening everywhere with so many extremes so this all has influenced this small work. A local painter who sits and paints in the rice fields made some bamboo painting brushes for me, so very kind and I’ve tried them out in this work too. Good for scraping back into the paint and making fine lines as he does. Love this limited color palette I mixed with the few colors I had at hand.
The women were again back in the rice fields doing the heavy work even during the rain they work with thin plastic capes on. The men watch and then bring the heavy sacks filled with rice home on their motorbikes. The women do seem to be very happy and take breaks near the little huts or trees.
I discovered this lovely Indonesian singer Yura Yunita who actually made me feel very emotional being here in this lovely area with her gorgeous song which suited this work as if it was made for it, ‘Jalang pulang’.
The paper is mounted on a very heavy thick beautiful wooden artist panel which looks great on your wall. Additionally it still can be framed as shown in one of the display pictures but is not included in the price. Comes varnished and signed 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