At the center of this work, materials converge. A crossing emerges — not symbolic, but physical — formed through pressure, layering and interruption. The image suggests orientation without direction, marking a moment of balance within an unstable field.

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Crossing Point

This work reveals a surface marked by tension and pressure. Cracked layers and stretched forms suggest skin that has endured time, weight, and movement. What appears fragile is in fact resilient — holding together despite visible fractures. The image oscillates between erosion and preservation, inviting the viewer to look beyond damage and sense what remains intact beneath.

Beneath the Skin

An upward movement draws the eye through the composition, as if something is lifting itself from the ground. Red and earth tones concentrate at the center and dissolve into a quieter, almost water-like space.

The tension in this work lies not in contrast, but in transition; it captures the moment just before change — when material gathers, while the outcome remains open.

Shifting Perspectives

This work unfolds like a geological cross-section — a place where time, pressure, and material converge. Cracks and ruptures move across the surface as silent witnesses of transformation, echoing both tectonic shifts and the fragility of skin.

Layers appear compressed, fractured, and reconnected, suggesting a moment where something has been broken open in order to realign. The surface carries traces of resistance and surrender, where matter remembers what has passed through it.

Fault Line of Memory invites the viewer to read the surface slowly, as an archive of tension and release — a boundary where inner and outer landscapes meet.

Fold line of memory

Here the surface becomes a terrain shaped by impact. Rough textures and subtle color shifts resemble scar tissue seen up close, transforming vulnerability into structure. The work balances exposure and restraint, suggesting that every mark is both a wound and a record of survival.

Scar Landscape

Soft layers both cover and reveal one another. The image holds a fragile balance: nothing is fully exposed, nothing fully concealed. The color tones are light, almost powdery, interrupted only by subtle disturbances in the skin.

In Veil of Silence, silence becomes tangible. The work invites closeness — to look without naming, as if meaning emerges precisely in not knowing.

Veil of Silence

Cracks spread across the surface like a network of lines. The horizontal composition evokes associations with landscape, yet refuses full recognition.

Fractured Horizon depicts a boundary that is never fixed. It is a work about shifting perspectives — about looking beyond what first appears familiar.

Fractured Horizon

This work opens like a landscape without a horizon. Fine lines and traces move across the surface like echoes of growth, erosion, and time. The restrained, near-monochrome palette gives weight to every detail.

Lines of Stillness is not about movement, but about the marks this movement leaves behind. It is a work that asks for calm — and returns that calm in equal measure.

Lines of Stillness

Vertical traces suggest an inner landscape. The skin of the work feels lived-in: sanded down, built up, reopened. Pink and grey tones move alongside one another like underlying layers of memory.

Inner Terrain portrays the body not as form, but as territory — a place where experience settles into structures and scars, without a fixed narrative.

Inner Terrain

Color and material meet in a field of tension between weight and openness. The underlying layer feels compact and earthy, while lighter zones lift the image toward air and transparency.

Between Earth and Light marks a transition — a place where landscape dissolves into light and the skin releases its fixed form.

Between Earth & Light

This work unfolds as a quiet threshold between two states. A horizontal division runs through the composition, suggesting a horizon that is neither fixed nor fully defined. Above it, vertical traces descend softly, like weathered walls or veils of time. Below, the surface becomes denser, cracked and eroded, as if shaped by slow geological pressure.

The muted palette — pale earth tones, greys and hints of mineral blue — reinforces a sense of stillness. Nothing here demands attention; instead, the work invites prolonged looking. The cracks function not as disruptions, but as records of time passing, of material responding to its own limits.

Silent Horizon exists between landscape and skin. The surface reads as terrain, yet feels intimate and tactile, almost bodily. It is a place of pause — where movement has settled, and where silence becomes a form of presence.

This work resonates strongly with the final stages of Seeing Through – Retold, marking a moment of quiet arrival rather than

Silent Horizons

In this work, the surface becomes a threshold. A horizontal line divides the image into two zones: above, a quiet, almost breathing emptiness; below, a dense concentration of material. The cracked skin, cut through with red and earthy tones, suggests both vulnerability and resilience.

What becomes visible may resemble a wound, but equally a landscape in formation. Beneath the Surface invites slow looking — toward what unfolds just below the visible, where tension and silence meet.

Beneath the surface

The vertical form in this work evokes an almost human presence. Layers fold around one another like protective skins, with frayed edges and fault lines revealing the process of becoming.

The material seems to hold and release at the same time. Held in Layers reflects on the body as a carrier of time — shaped by touch, memory, and repetition. The work balances fragility and strength, appearance and disappearance.

Held in layers

Here, material gathers and disperses at once. Thickened textures and eroded passages form a tactile terrain that oscillates between bodily presence and geological matter. What seems solid begins to soften; what appears fragile reveals unexpected strength.

The work speaks of exposure — of moments when the surface can no longer hold everything inside. Pigment, structure, and void interact in a fragile equilibrium, as if the work is caught mid-breath.

Where the Surface Breaks reflects a core theme within Seeing Through – Retold: that meaning often emerges precisely where control loosens and form begins to dissolve.

Where the surface breaks

Fractured Emergence

In this work, form appears through resistance. A concentrated, organic structure pushes outward from the surface, as if breaking through a thin skin. The material gathers in sharp folds and ridges, marked by copper and rust tones that contrast with the pale, muted ground.

The left side of the composition remains open and quiet, while the right side carries tension and weight. This imbalance creates a sense of movement — not explosive, but deliberate — as though the form is slowly asserting its presence.

Fractured Emergence explores the moment where containment gives way to release. The surface feels bodily and geological at once: a fragment of landscape, a trace of inner structure. What emerges is not fully defined, but unmistakably present, held in a fragile balance between vulnerability and strength.

Fractured Emergence

This painting 'Ebb & Flow' moves like a shifting shoreline — a visual rhythm of giving and taking. Layers of colour wash over one another like tides, creating a sense of quiet motion. Soft transitions meet sudden accents, echoing how natural forces shape and reshape what we see. It is a painting that invites slow looking: textures rise and dissolve, hues drift into one another, and the whole composition breathes with the cyclical pulse of ebb and flow.

A work that embodies movement not as action, but as transformation.

Ebb & Flow

This painting 'Impuls' captures the moment where intuition becomes form. Bursts of colour collide with delicate marks, creating a field of controlled chaos and spontaneous energy. The painting vibrates with movement — gestures, scratches, layers and fragments build a dynamic conversation between foreground and depth.

This colorful work from Marjoleine Maessen feels like the spark before the idea becomes whole: raw, immediate, and unapologetically alive. It reveals how a single artistic impulse can open an entire world of visual possibilities.

Impuls

This work unfolds as a suspended landscape. Horizontal layers suggest a distant shoreline or a horizon seen through haze, while vertical drips pull the surface downward, dissolving form into movement. Turquoise, muted greens and earthy tones intermingle, creating a sense of slow erosion rather than abrupt change.

The upper section feels calm and atmospheric, almost weightless. Below, the surface becomes more tactile and restless, marked by lines, scratches and flowing pigment. These downward traces read like gravity at work — a gradual yielding of structure.

Drifting Ground explores instability as a quiet state. The landscape is not fixed, but continuously reshaped by time, moisture and pressure. What remains is a fragile balance between holding and letting go, between memory and disappearance.

Drifting Grounds

Structures & Layers

In Flow of Renewal, Ariadne Leefoge reveals how movement and energy converge in a play of colors and layered forms. The work breathes continuous dynamism: strength and softness blending into one another, as if new possibilities keep rising to the surface.

Flow of Renewal

Broken Light captures the instant when light fractures, disperses, and flows into new directions. Ariadne Leefoge reveals how brightness and shadow intertwine, how fragility and strength coexist. The interplay of warm and cool tones suggests motion and transition – as if the light itself is undergoing a process of transformation. The work invites viewers to look not only at what is visible, but also at the elusive moments in between.

Broken Light

This work is an ode to the inner process of becoming. or witness how forms unfold, how colors merge into something new. As if nature itself tells a story of sprouting, stretching, and reaching for light. It is both vulnerable and strong.

Growth

Colors clash and merge, as if the canvas itself is in motion. Momentum is a painting that makes the force of the present tangible – dynamic, energetic, and unapologetically alive. It embodies a current that cannot be stopped.

Momentum

A play of red, purple and turquoise flows together like breath – rhythmic, intense, yet light. Breath of Light captures the instant where energy and silence touch. The canvas breathes space and movement, as if you are standing inside the heart of a sudden flash of light.