Margriet Smulders Art

Another highlight is Margriet Smulders, a renowned photographer since the early 1990s, with her enchanting still lifes made by flowers. Her works have been part of over 40 collection...

In her lush photographic scenes flowers take centre stage. Smulders construct her floral still lives on a big mirror, using hand blown glass objects designed by herself, carefully a...

The work 'Aturalia' is part of Margriet her most recent series of works from Fruits de Rococo, where she found her inspiration in the style period of Rococo. Aturalia is together with Nartificilia a diptych, but can also be enjoyed perfectly seperate from one another. In the series Fruits de Rococo, artist Margriet Smulders takes us into the maelstrom of her thoughts about our existence. In thirty still lifes, she depicts life as a flowing river. Smulders takes us from the source to the sea, from the dark origin to the sublime end. Fascinated as she is by the cycle of life, she guides us through birth, bloom and decay, with heaven as the apotheosis. about Margriet Smulders In the works by Margriet Smulders (1955, the Netherlands), the theme ‘lust and temptation’ play a major role. Standing in front of them, her impressive photograph’s cause the feeling of being sucked into the image. Large compositions are seducing the viewer and lead the eye from one to the other detail. In her work, Smulders mostly uses exotic flowers and fruit. To arrange the objects she uses colored draperies, water and mirrors. The result looks like a detail from a mysterious fairy tale world. Even though people are absent in these surrealistic landscapes, these works seem to tell a story or hold a meaning. It feels like Margriet Smulders paints with her photo camera.

In Chinese, the Persian Silk tree or Mimosa (Albizia julibrissin) is called: Hé Huân Huà. The ‘Materia Medica’ describes the bark (Hé Huân Pi) to not only ...

Venti takes us to higher places, as a ceiling where you can enjoy and navigate through .. In the most recent series: Rococo 2022, artist Margriet Smulders takes us into the maelstro...

The water touches the sky and we find freedom and infinity. Here we play and dance and drink. Here we drink lightness and levity, with the Fruits de Rococo. Inspired by the French wr...