Marjoke van Kamp
After completing a modest art education about 20 years ago (at Stichting Kreatieve Educatie in Amsterdam), one thing became clear to me: I had to continue in the field of visual art—but how? The great search could begin: paper, collage, sculpture, ceramics, cutting, drawing, painting—everything was explored. In the meantime, I took workshops and classes, both in the Netherlands (Storing AUB, highly recommended) and in Germany, where I spent about ten years on and off. Something began to take shape—my forms were almost always (rect)angular, and I developed a deep fondness for wooden boxes. The vast collection of empty cigar boxes I had gathered throughout my life always moved with me.
Lately, I mainly work with scrap wood—I dive into every construction dumpster I come across. From this wood, I create objects: tiny houses, floor plans (of the houses I’ve lived in over the years), and recently, some more 3D work. The colors are muted—I call it the “GDR palette,” a small inheritance from my German chapter—or monochrome.
More recently, I’ve also started painting again. Once more, those same colors. Abstract. Stripes. Color fields. We’ll see how this evolves.
