Marianne Gabriel uses her artistic imagination as well as her carefully honed painting craft to create a universe of movement and stillness, life and inertia, noise and silence. Her brush strokes can effortlessly convey the boundless energy of a waterfall and the total stillness of a swamp, turning both of them into objects of beauty and wonder. She can capture the delicacy of a tiny seashell, the immensity of an ocean, the permanence of a mountain and the transience of a storm.

Her art directly delights the senses – eyes in the first place but ears too and noses too as musical sounds and refined fragrances issue from her paintings. More indirectly, her art triggers a wide range of emotional responses in viewers and can arouse a quest for deeper meanings and connections. Some art lovers find themselves inspired by Gabriel’s art to invent stories and narratives while others are content to experience them in a spirit of peaceful contemplation. All of them discover in Marianne Gabriel a painter who combines the dazzling imagination and restless experimentation of a creative artist with the practical perfectionism of real craft.