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mARiANNE EichENBAUm

Lives and works in gilroy, CA USA
www.mariestudios.com

german-born, California-based artist Marianne Eichenbaum paints bold, much happier outlook on life and my environment. My art has helped me to
colorful works straddling the boundary between abstraction and figuration, grow into a very happy person with a great love for life – something I seek
often melding floral imagery with mysterious, amorphous shapes. The to share through my work. I like to experiment with a variety of techniques
resulting compositions, rendered in rich hues of oil and acrylic, feature and tools, and I do not like to limit myself to just one style of painting. I have
impressively vivid textures and folds. These close-up images alternately painted with acrylics, oils, watercolors and pastels, but I do find that oil is
evoke traditional still life by which Eichenbaum’s imagery and palette remain still my favorite medium to use.
fiercely original. Her canvases are dominated by rich reds and yellows that
glow from the careful build-up of layered pigments. As a testament to the
strong influence that artists from the Old Masters to Modernist abstract
painters have exerted on her development, Eichenbaum varies her tools and
style of application dramatically. Certain works are grooved and ridged with
thick areas of paint, while others appear as smooth as the flower petals they
seem to portray. No matter the mode, her brushstrokes create dynamic,
tight compositions that draw viewers’ eyes and command the attention
with their rich interplay of gentle and rough textures, bright and dark tones.

Most of my inspiration comes from the world around me and from my
travels, the scenery and the people in action. we live in a very colorful world,
where nature itself provides us with so much inspiration to paint. Family has
always been important in my artistic development – my earliest inspiration
was the beautiful decorating work of my father, a master baker. Now, as a
grandparent, I open my studio up to my grandchildren and am inspired by 
the developing talent of a number of the younger generation. Channeling ChAos, 2013 OIL AND ACRYLIC ON CANvAS 24X18 IN. | 60X45.5 CM.
my emotions and frustrations onto paper and into art has helped me find a  RhApsoDy IN CoLoR, 2013 ACRYLIC ON CANvAS 30X40 IN. | 76X100 CM.

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