Anne Maryken’s career has not been a textbook one. After obtaining her Law degree from the Free University of Amsterdam (VU), she was active in the corporate sector, the judiciary, a union organization and at present she teaches Law in higher education. However, through the years she has always combined these activities with creativity in fine art.
During her student years Anne Maryken developed skills of graphite drawings based on intrinsic inspiration. After graduation she changed her focus to figure drawing and moulding with live models. For quite some years she developed further skills: in etching as well as in the techniques of working with ceramics.
All the acquired knowledge and skills now are combined in the figurative sculptures of bronze and resin she has created in more recent years. She does work by commissions as well as out of her own personal inspiration. Her drawings in graphite and/or Conté à Paris soft pastels often form the starting point as a source of inspiration. But she also gets inspired by forms, lines, suggestions, expressions that emerge out of the clay in her hands.
In its simplicity her work is felt as powerful and expressive. This is also what she aims for. She calls this: “the search for the ‘fourth dimension’”. Sometimes this fourth dimension solely consists of “movement”; another time it consists of showing the essence of who or what the initial model was. Often this search leads towards work that doesn’t express an unequivocal essence, which allows the observer to give it his/her very own interpretation.
Thus, Anne Maryken’s work has the capacity to touch people. As a counterbalance in these times of diminished empathy and commercialization, it appeals to feelings of gentleness and openness of the spectator. An important personal motive for Anne Maryken. In this way she strives to contribute to a world a touch better and more beautiful.Opleidingen2019- heden Academie voor Schone Kunsten, Arendonk (België)
2019 Anja Vosdingh Bessem, Plomion, Frankrijk - boetseren naar model
2018 & 2019 Ars Leiden/ Saskia Masselink - Tekenen naar model
2017 & 2018 Janine Melai, Mirese Mudde, Koen de Vries - Sculptuur
2017 RDM Makerspace - TIG-lassen
2017 Katrin Dekoninck, Mol, België - monumentaal boetseren
2017 Elly van Leeuwen, Leiden - keramiek; steengoed.
2017 Jaqueline Petit, Leiden- boetseren/ boetseren naar model
2016 & 2017 Marianne van der Kooij, Amsterdam - rubberen mallen
2016 Anja Vosdingh Bessem, Amsterdam - Kopkleien
2012 - 2016 Guus Zuijderwijk, Delft - keramiek, ontwikkeling glazuren, beelden
2010 & 2015 Monique Sleegers, Utrecht - beelden (a la Picasso)
2009 & 2010 Kunstacademie Leiden/Haarlem/ Simon Konijn - modelboetseren
2008 & 2013 Sculpture-art, Frankrijk - werken in was en brons
2008 Jitse Sikkema, De Wilgen - speciale boetseertechniek
2006 - 2008 Gertrude Kraaijenbos, Leiden - keramische handvormen, raku
2006 Ireen Prager, Kaag - boetseren naar model
2000 - 2005 Peter Zuur, Leiden - etstechnieken
1996 Hof 88, Almelo - tekenen en boetseren naar model
2023 Get connectie, Damme België, groepsexpositie
2023 Kunstroute Lochem
2022 Kunstroute Leiden
2022 Gallery 22, Damme (Belgie), groepsexpositie
2022 Viart, Vianden (Luxemburg)
2022 Kunst in de Heemtuin Leiderdorp, groepsexpositie
2022 First Art Fair, Amsterdam
2021 Museum Het Leids Wevershuis, duo-expositie met Sylvia ten Kley
2021 Groepsexpositie, 1,5 meter KunstSalon Rotterdam
2021 Kunstroute Leiden
2021 Art Malden
2021 Groepsexpositie Galerie Huis ter Heide (Dr.)
2020 "Wat een jaar!", Groepsexpositie, Krimpen aan den IJssel
2020 Chez-Moi Ton Schulten Galerie International, Ootmarsum
2020 Annual Dutch Art Fair, Amsterdam
2020 Jardin des Sculptures, Fayence (Frankrijk)
2020 Brabant Art Fair, Grote Kerk Breda
2020 Vermelding in het Jaarboek Kunstenaars 2020
2020 PUUR Buitensculptuur, Appeltern
2019 Nationale Kunstdagen, Nieuwegein
2019 Chez-Moi Ton Schulten Galerie International, Ootmarsum
2019 Dresden Hilton, Germany
2019 Amsterdam International Art Fair – Beurs v Berlage
2019 Paris Charles de Gaulle Hilton, Frankrijk
2019 Rotterdam Marriot Hotel
2019 Digitale voorselectie ZomerExpo 2019
2019 Brabant Art Fair, Breda
2018 Nationale Kunstdagen, Nieuwegein
2018 Kunstroute Leiden
2018 Sint Rosa Festival, Kunstmarkt Sittard
2018 Kunstwedstrijd Herensociëteit Amicitia, Leiden
2018 Art Eindhoven
2018 Marion Zimmerman Artgallery, Hamburg, Duitsland
2018 Hilton Brussel City Hotel, Brussel, Belgie
2018 Vermelding in Jaarboek Kunstenaars 2018
2017 Hilton Brussel City Hotel, Brussel, Belgie
2017 Groene Hart Kunstprijs, Nieuwkoop
2017 Nationale Kunstdagen, Nieuwegein
2017 Kunstroute Leiden
2017 Zomerexpositie Museum Voorschoten
2017 Expositiekelder Inge Kuyp - solo-expositie
2016 Kunstroute Leiden
2016 Berkenwoude natuurterrein
2015 De Plek Leiden
2005 Universiteit Leiden Sylvius Laboratorium
